burn through

phrasal verb

burned through or burnt through; burning through; burns through

informal

: to use all of (something) quickly

They've burned through 2 million dollars already, and the renovations are far from complete.

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Likely a worse one, in fact, as both the Eaton and Palisades fires burned through dense neighborhoods, already dwarfing Northern California's statistics and joining several other smaller blazes to devastate much of the southern section of the state. —

Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025 Firewood is carefully rationed, with some households burning through 100 cubic meters of larch annually. —

Scott Travers, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025 Another encroached from the east, burning through an acre every few minutes. —

Eli Saslow, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025 And whether the Chiefs can burn through that many fireworks again against the Texans is, well, up to Mahomes and company. —

Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for burn through