burn alive

phrase

: to kill by being set on fire

The captives were burned alive.

Examples of burn alive in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The event marks one of the earlier sightings of the shape-shifting, child-devouring It entity as dozens of victims burn alive. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Dec. 2025

Sinners is a symphony of vampire bites, gunshot wounds, people being staked in the heart and left to burn alive. — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 2 May 2025

Soaring above the clouds, the airmen may get shot, struck by shrapnel, burn alive, or simply fall out. — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024

Two friends burn alive in defective tanning beds; a Bowflex machine crushes a meathead; a semi-trailer truck collides with Kevin's car, rocketing the motor into a bystander; and one girl's skull gets pelted by a nail gun. — Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2022

Officials have also accused the protesters of trying to burn alive 10 police officers in Bogota. — Star Tribune, 15 May 2021

The mentally ill men left to burn alive in a sordid boarding home that operated with little regard for lifesaving regulations. — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2020

David Young, 69, who crashed his minivan into a tree while evacuating, only to burn alive with two pets in the cargo area. — Lizzie Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 16 June 2020

Rhymes for burn alive

• overdrive
• archive
• arrive
• beehive
• connive
• contrive
• deprive
• derive
• khedive
• revive
• survive
• dive