• Without the flash, the solitary candle burning inside was the source of light, and the photo really shows up the carving and the fact that it is a Halloween pumpkin.
• The arsonist is believed to have used two large candles from the altar - which he lit from smaller candles burning in a sand-filled bowl - to carry out the attack.
• It is as if there is a small candle burning in the room: bring a bigger light into the room and the small candle simply loses all significance.

• From where she was, it seemed like the whole City was burning.
• And the city duly burned for four days, the flames jumping 20 blocks northwards every hour on the first night.
• Border City burned, the magical flames from Uriko's spell spreading out from near its center, engulfing the whole city.

• Using energy, mainly by burning fossil fuels, produces waste carbon dioxide.
• Currently we get most of our energy from burning fossil fuels.
• Most backup diesel generators burn distillate fuel oil, the same fuel used for heating and for aircraft.

• When you drink water, your body burns extra calories.
• This can disrupt the work of the thyroid gland, which regulates how our bodies burn calories.
• Regular exercise increases the rate your body burns calories.

• Miraculously he never burned himself or set the house on fire.
• Ricky burned himself trying to make toast and got a blister on his hand, but he felt he was managing.
• Mrs Dhariwal said to her son: ‘I have burned myself and I want to kill myself.’

Synonyms

• As summer came on, his skin was burning or peeling, white or red; he never browned.
• An added problem is the ‘Celtic’ skin type which is common in Scotland: fairer skins burn more easily, and burns mean more skin cancer risk.
• He also commented on the lack of moisturiser as his skin burned, peeled and then peeled again in the blazing sun.

• All were in bad temper and soaking wet, eyes burning and sore from the oceans' salt as they sat along the disheveled bank.
• My hips were sore and my thighs burned from the repeated kicking.
• You can relieve dry mouth, which may cause your mouth to burn or feel sore, by drinking plenty of water.

Synonyms

• It can leave the back marked with burns and hickeys.
• A burn marked his coat, but there didn't seem to be any bleeding of burns on his skin.
• Bullet marks and burns could be seen all over the hull.

• Cleo was dumped next to him, her hands and feet bound with coarse rope that caused friction burns on her skin.
• Without the proper equipment, a worker risks injuries such as abrasions, or friction burns.
• Medical evidence was given to the inquest that death was caused by asphyxia secondary to compression with fractures of the ribs and friction burns.

• If you're one of those souls who is blessed with gym discipline or a YMCA membership, then you know how satisfying the lingering burn of energized muscles can be.
• So the coach of course is not experiencing the pain of the athlete who's running, for example and who's now in a state of oxygen debt and experiencing muscle burn and so forth.

• Were it not for the engine burn, the spacecraft would have accelerated far more and continued on to the outer reaches of the Solar System.
• The US Delta launch vehicle upper stage now performs such a burn to depletion.

• Harsh, high-elevation burn areas provide excellent seedbeds for this species.
• There can be too much of a good thing, however - burn areas with heavier snow packs are susceptible to avalanche.