If one wants to force full commitment, one might burn one's boats, removing any possibility of retreat.

When his suggestion was ignored for the third time, he decided to do a slow burn instead of starting an argument.

He didn't mean to burn someone's ears by reading the old love letters aloud at the reunion, but half the room turned bright red.

After the betrayal, anyone who sided with the whistleblower had effectively burned one's bridges with the organization.

The museum arranged a panel to discuss the historical and contemporary causes of book burning and its impact on free expression.

At recess the kids gave each other Chinese burns until someone started crying.

For Burns night, our family gathered to eat haggis and recite his poetry.

During the final evolutionary stages of massive stars, silicon burning produces a cascade of nuclear reactions that create elements up to iron.

In stars of more than eight solar masses that have exhausted their helium supply, carbon burning converts carbon into neon, sodium, magnesium, and other elements, driving the star toward later fusion stages.

In models of massive stars, oxygen burning is the nucleosynthesis phase that follows carbon burning, during which neon disintegrates and oxygen fuses to form silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, and other elements up to atomic number 40.