How to Use burn up in a Sentence

burn up

phrasal verb
Definition of burn upnext
  • Stuck in a lower-than-planned orbit, all 20 satellites fell back into the atmosphere and burned up.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2024
  • When Earth passes through this path of particles each year, the grains burn up in our atmosphere, producing the annual Draconid meteor shower.
    — Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Taylor Swift and Ice Spice are getting ready to burn up the charts.
    — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
  • The peanut crop failed, the cotton and corn crops burned up, and their income that first year was less than $200.
    — Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • She wasn’t burned up with resentment and anger and hate.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • Most of the time when samples come back through the atmosphere, they’re burned up.
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Boats in the harbor had burned up, and others were on the brink of explosion.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The fires have burned up the historic town of Lahaina and destroyed homes and businesses.
    — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Believe it or not, tasks like weeding can burn up to 400 calories per hour.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Nearly all of the spacecraft should have burned up during reentry.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The 20 satellites are expected to burn up in the atmosphere and not pose any threat, SpaceX said Friday.
    — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • The vast majority of it burns up on its way down, but every so often, pieces fall to the surface.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 26 June 2024
  • For the video, Lipa burns up the dance floor in a rehearsal room, lending to the song’s future dance-floor domination.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Houses and cars are seen completely burned up, with sounds of gunfire and clashes heard in the background.
    — Kareem Khadder, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The satellites are expected to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere and burn up.
    — Roger Simmons, Orlando Sentinel, 12 July 2024
  • More than 1 million acres of land have burned up in the fires, including the Smokehouse Creek Fire, the largest wildfire in Texas history.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • When a space rock enters the atmosphere on its own and burns up, it's called a meteor, or shooting star.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Nobody can be both the magnifying glass and the ant burning up under its glare.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 7 Aug. 2023
  • It is jettisoned prior to re-entry and burns up in the atmosphere.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 21 June 2024
  • That November, a wildfire started burning up in the foothills.
    — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
  • As the Earth moves through this field of icy comet remnants, those tiny pieces burn up in our atmosphere, producing a shooting star.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2023
  • All 20 satellites quickly fell back into the atmosphere and burned up.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2024
  • If your cheeks are burning up with a once-a-week schedule, for instance, take a break until the irritation goes away.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Taking a brisk walk after a meal can burn up to 15% more calories than walking on an empty stomach.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Most of the rocket burned up during reentry, but this booster stage is so massive that large fragments fell to the ground, or into the sea, intact.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Critics suggested these planes would burn up on their descent back to Earth, Suzuki says.
    — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Its fall-forward scent, which includes notes of cinnamon, clove, ginger, and sweet orange, can burn up to 150 hours.
    — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Unless the aerodynamics of reentry are worked out precisely for a proper shield, the warhead will burn up and fail to hit the target on the ground.
    — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • During the fall, the craft breaks apart into smaller pieces, most of which burn up upon reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • When Earth passes through these trails, the bits of dust collide with Earth’s atmosphere, causing meteors to burn up and create bright streaks in the sky.
    — Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 3 May 2024

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