burn off
Example Sentences
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To burn off my energy, my parents had enrolled me in dance classes at age 4.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
The fire that broke out following the crash will have helped to burn off some of the jet fuel but also could be preventing the counter-pollution effort beginning immediately.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025
The gel can subsequently be heated to burn off the organic fragment.
From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2024
It was a way to burn off stress during that difficult period and, frankly, to fill the hours I’d otherwise be spending solo at home, on the heels of a breakup.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024
There was a lot of work to do, and for most of them there was a lot of weight to burn off.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
