kilning

present participle of kiln

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for kilning
Verb
  • Science builds on prior insights, and a handy repository of past advances serves as kindling for future discoveries.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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, New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There's even an incinerating toilet to handle waste.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In a criminal complaint, authorities allege Rinderknecht caused the fire by lighting a combustible material, such as vegetation or paper, with an open flame, likely a lighter.
    Alex Stone, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Monday’s flight was similar to the previous one, again deploying a batch of mock Starlink satellites, briefly re-lighting its engines in space and testing new heat shield tiles during its blazing hot return from space before splashing down west of Australia.
    Reuters, NBC news, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The rapid escalation of trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies has sunk stocks, rattling investors and industries by igniting fears of a repeat of the tit-for-tat tariff battle in spring, when levies on Chinese and American imports soared to around 145% and 120% respectively.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Jennifer Acree read a range of emotions across several of her group chats as texts spread that a man was arrested on suspicion of igniting the deadly Palisades Fire that ripped through the Los Angeles area earlier this year.
    Terry Collins, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In 1992, the Serbian military burned down the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, torching thousands of historic manuscripts.
    Ryan Byrnes, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The two reminisce in their childhood bedroom over a joint and bond as siblings over their respective failures in life before torching the place.
    Andrew Bernard, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Some of the bodies also showed signs of charring on certain parts of the skeleton, which further supports the theory that the remains were exposed to fire pre-burial, per the researchers.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
  • In some methods, these processes work by disrupting the combustion cycle, either by charring the fabric, releasing flame-suppressing gases, or creating an insulating layer.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Dodgers, for their part, have performed quite well despite their primary offensive engine not firing properly.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • At a news conference, police showed a video in which two people can be seen leaving a restaurant on Fountain Square Oct 13 and firing a gun at a restaurant, injuring two people.
    Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The fuel dump, one of the largest in Crimea, is fiercely burning.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Tozer St / Ave 15 Fire has been burning on private land.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025
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“Kilning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kilning. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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