How to Use burn down in a Sentence

burn down

verb

• Of the fact our city burns down….
  — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2026
• Hey, brain surgeon, my house burned down.
  — Tom Wait, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
• His parents’ house burned down, too.
  — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
• This isn't the first time one of Dambo's trolls has burned down.
  — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
• Her car has been burned down twice, and her life has been threatened.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2026
• The world is still their oyster, even if part of it is burning down.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 2 June 2026
• At some point, cities no longer burned down, only blocks or buildings did.
  — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
• Banks threatened to burn down Del Rey’s house with voodoo.
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2026
• Why does Victor burn down the tower?
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Mar. 2026
• On the first day of the revolt, the rebels burned down sixteen sugar mills.
  — Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
• One of them burned down, and the other sustained damage.
  — Sarah Batcha, Oc Register, 28 May 2026
• The fires have forced thousands to evacuate and burned down six homes.
  — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 28 July 2026
• If charcoal, allow to burn down past super hot.
  — CBS News, 28 May 2026
• If one post office burned down, mail delivery wouldn’t stop.
  — Laura Isensee, Scientific American, 18 May 2026
• Her house burned down too, and shortly after, her husband died.
  — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
• Hunter said her home and the wedding chapel weren’t the only things that were burned down by the wildfire.
  — Staff Author, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
• Then, right around the time SimAnt was coming out, Wright’s house burned down.
  — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
• When the local church burned down, businesses helped rebuild it.
  — Heather Farmbrough, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• If it is outright rejected and people burn down the theaters, cool.
  — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 22 July 2026
• As logs burn down, their embers are moved from the central chimney stack to a structure of flattops and grates.
  — Elazar Sontag, Washington Post, 23 July 2026
• His profession is to be the screaming jerk on reality shows, and his house burns down.
  — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026
• Nazarian and residents said a home once sat on the property, but burned down.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
• The Boise Fire Department burned down most of the mall last winter.
  — Matan Josephy, Idaho Statesman, 17 June 2026
• The random nature of the destruction caused by wildfires means that not every house burnt down.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 26 July 2026
• The Arizona team found a simple way to burn down the hardware requirements.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
• Porta-potties at the field had burned down due to fireworks from the Fourth of July.
  — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
• You guys let my entire neighborhood burn down, remember?
  — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
• After a fire burns down the family’s home and turns their lives upside down, her children are placed in foster care.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026
• Everything changed after his house burned down in the Palisades Fire.
  — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
• Sylvie Andrews, whose Altadena home burned down, took the new survey.
  — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026