I grew up with images of the city as a burnt-out shell and was amazed to see how modern it is.
The stove vanished and she was left sitting with the end of a burnt-out match in her hand.
Tallis waited in the deserted cafe terrace beside the entrance, scraping with a burnt-out match at the gull droppings that had fallen through the tattered awning on to the green metal tables.
There is less money for school buildings, books and supplies, these schools are often staffed with less experienced teachers or older burnt-out teachers just waiting to retire.
They were less lethal but introduced a horrific novelty: one of the burnt-out buses was full of passengers.
At the entrance to one village, Gar Chakraberia, a burnt-out police van bears their epitaph: “We will never let industry take our motherland.”
The cypress-trees were like burnt-out torches. From one of them a nightingale was singing.
The binary star system consists of two white dwarfs—the burnt-out cores of sunlike stars.