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Meanings of burning at the stake in English

Execution by fire.

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Examples for "burning"
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Some companies ended up burning it illegally, causing environmental and health problems.
Radio NZ
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A case in point: that Park Creek fire burning outside of Lincoln.
Wired
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Major bushfires are burning across the Australian state of New South Wales.
BBC
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An obvious but rarely asked question is: whose cash is Uber burning?
The Guardian
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It's burning fossil fuels that's causing the global crisis of Climate Change.
Radio NZ
Usage of burning at the stake in English
1
Threaten him with burning at the stake if he fails to recant; 2.
The Irish Times
2
The concept of burning at the stake was relatively simple.
News.com.au
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It was the worst punishment they had, even worse than burning at the stake.
The fifth servant
4
Witchcraft of course was not the only offense that merited torture and burning at the stake.
The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
5
Then Martha Stechlin would already be burning at the stake, and the matter would be settled.
The hangman's daughter
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An unexpected spectacle: A burning at the stake.
News.com.au
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That was the burning at the stake of Wishart on the campus in front of Saint Andrews.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 / Little J...
8
Kotoxen was for the death penalty; the implacable Pipe for nothing less than burning at the stake.
The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the...
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Six eternities of burning at the stake!
The Night Horseman
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A mass burning at the stake?
The Guardian
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He ain't as good pluck as the other one we had-hecould stand burning at the stake without flinching.
Wild Western Scenes / A Narrative of Adventures in the Western W...
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A war that Arthur was forced to fight after Lancelot had saved Guinevere from burning at the stake in Camelot.
The darkest road
13
Gone is the thankless stand-up comic who turned the term "warm-up act" into a burning at the stake.
Reuters
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Adoption or burning at the stake was the alternative of capture; but no mound was ever raised over the burned remains.
Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
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These human victims, chained and burning at the stake, were the blazing torches which lighted the monarch to his nuptial couch.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 04: 1555-59
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Plunder, arson, lynching and burning at the stake were employed against him to break his morale or incite him against America.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights