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
Dr Raffan explained: "It alters the predisposition to weight gain because it's tweaking a system that is involved in regulating how hungry we feel and how much energy we burn off."
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2025
The gel can subsequently be heated to burn off the organic fragment.
From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2024
To help burn off excess calories from the giant canteen, a main fitness center holds more than 350 machines and two saunas, which can also help athletes control their weight.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2024
A bad journey they had of it, their fingers numb and with a shiver in their bones that not even wine could burn off.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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