incinerating

present participle of incinerate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of incinerating The Ochoco's bathroom is situated on the opposite side of the home to its living room and includes a shower, sink, and an incinerating toilet – which literally turns toilet waste into ash. New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2025 There's even an incinerating toilet to handle waste. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025 The blast unleashed a whirlwind of fire and force, incinerating thousands of people. Mai Nishiyama, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incinerating
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Mercury and Mars in Scorpio are igniting your money and resources sector, so expect conversations about finances, investments, or even overdue payments to heat up.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The moment — delivered by Steinfeld’s character Mary on a humid New Orleans train platform — was clipped, memed and replayed across TikTok, igniting think pieces and parodies alike.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Little Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the United States Forest Service.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Halvorson was pulled from the burning debris in less than two minutes and rushed to waiting medics and flown in a CareFlite helicopter to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, with significant injuries.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • During the 2024 rampage, two suspects wearing masks were captured on surveillance video shuffling up a driveway and firing weapons towards the home.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The challenge today is that chatbots, which tend to work as billions of neurons connected together in dense layers, start firing en masse when the LLM is working on a response.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Incinerating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incinerating. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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