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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
Crystal’s house at 860 Chautauqua Boulevard in Pacific Palisades was incinerated in the wildfire of early January 2025. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026 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
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
  • Sources told the outlet that Smalls is now giving mutual friends an ultimatum to choose sides, which has ignited a bitter war within the VS circle.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The decision has ignited sharp debate across the county, pitting concerns over public safety against warnings that the policy criminalizes homelessness and poverty.
    — La'Tasha Givens, CBS News, 28 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
  • Baylor fired coach Dave Aranda on Sunday after more than six seasons and promoted defensive coordinator Joe Klanderman as interim head coach for the rest of the season.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Aranda is now the third Power Four coach to be fired during the current college football season.
    — Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Along with charred automobile parts, construction debris and battery casing fragments found on the site as deep as 16 feet underground, MPCA testing done in the early 2010s identified lead and carcinogenic chemical hotspots.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Photos show the badly charred facility was filled with potentially explosive equipment and moonshine ingredients, including propane tanks.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The Lakers went to sleep in the second quarter and started to get cooked by the Warriors, watching their big lead get sliced to 53-53 at the half.
    — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2026
  • More popular are the evening Polynesian dance shows from groups like Kari Kari and Te Ra’ai, the latter of which comes with a traditional (if highly theatrical) umu feast cooked in an underground earth oven with hot stones.
    — Mark Johanson, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • There are also raw bar offerings, salads and vegetable sides, along with cooked seafood like octopus and seared scallops.
    — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026
  • On seared proteins, the fat reinforces the meat’s own character rather than competing with it.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 12 Oct. 2026

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“Incinerated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incinerated. Accessed 31 Oct. 2026.

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