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incinerated

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verb

past tense of incinerate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of incinerated
Adjective
Grace, her white lace dress blackened with blood, is smoking a cigarette outside of an incinerated mansion that belongs to her in-laws, the Le Domas, who are all dead. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026 Know More Initially founded in 2012 with a $5 million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation, Nautilus incinerated cash, sparing no expense in its pursuit of bringing resplendent literary science to the reading public. — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Verb
The Food and Drug Administration recommends disposing of drugs by dropping them off at a take-back location or by mailing them using a prepaid envelope that is delivered to a facility where the drugs are incinerated. — Sunny Linnebur, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026 And this particular person, his name is Tom Swift, just happened to be in an elevator, wrong place, wrong time when the plane hit and the jet fuel from the plane went right down the elevator shaft and incinerated it. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026 Every single glove must be manufactured, transported, and disposed (either landfilled or incinerated). — Cassandra Thiel, STAT, 8 Sep. 2026 According to Empa, epoxy-containing composites commonly end up being incinerated or sent to landfills. — New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2026 Cars and batteries and plastics and metals and other things were incinerated, and a toxic plume traveled for miles. — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026 Even after treatment, some could not be recycled and had to be sent to landfill or incinerated. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026 Hundreds have felt helpless in the Via De La Paz, Pacific Palisades condominium complex, as the wildfire incinerated half of it. — Kara Finnstrom, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026 Another is to pay fishers to catch inedible ones like the puffer fish so they can be incinerated. — ABC News, 30 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incinerated
Adjective
  • Designed to function like an ice resurfacer, BurnBot lays down pre-burned paths that define the boundaries of burn areas.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Yeager said none of the non-burned areas of the facility have been turned on again.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Most include decks or private patios with firepits ignited by the turn of a switch.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Guyette and his colleagues increasingly suspected that fires were not natural but anthropogenic—ignited by people.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • If possible, wait until the extreme temperatures cool to apply pesticides that can cause scorched leaves.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 20 June 2026
  • Later the day of the arson, a young man with scorched hands faced an FBI agent and others investigating the crime.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 4 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • And as the most recent press secretary found out, you can be fired from the position just as quickly as you were hired.
    — Chandelis Duster, NPR, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Police fired tear gas and water cannons to push back people wearing hoods and masks and throwing fireworks, paving stones and other objects at officers in the Place de la République, northeast of the Paris city center.
    — SYLVIE CORBET, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • The wall's stonework showed signs of fire damage, while archaeologists also uncovered burned seeds and the remains of a charred wooden building nearby.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Deeply cathartic to see Madison light a cigarette off Jeffrey Dahmer’s charred corpse.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Grant has since cooked with seven families highlighted in To Die For, and has shared her pilgrimages to the gravesites with the goods themselves to pay respect.
    — Jessi Roti, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
  • While at Himmah Hub, the couple reunited with women who had cooked for families from London’s Grenfell Tower block, which was devastated by a huge fire in 2017.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • On seared proteins, the fat reinforces the meat’s own character rather than competing with it.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Those moments remain seared into the collective consciousness of women nationwide.
    — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2026

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“Incinerated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incinerated. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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