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burning down

vb. (present participle of burn down English)

Usage examples of "burning down".

Tuf did not much like the way Pablo's eyes were burning down in the deep shadows of the cat's mouth.

Herb Asher remembered once again the burning down of his communications gear by Yah.

They let you out and you come to the Mermaid and what do you know, the Mermaid is burning down and inside are three dead men who just happened to be selling stolen jewellery.

Such an interview, perhaps, would have been more terrible than even to meet him as she now did, with the hot, midday sun burning down upon her face, and lighting up its shame.

But, by that time, the tail-fire burning down the length of the pirate craft had done as much damage as the explosion itself.