This tavern must have been facing west, because the burning sun came through the open door.

NEWYORKER: Share

It lay on its side, staring with one eye straight at Ginny, drifting alone in its disappearing sea, the sun burning both of them, beaming through the torn shreds of the shredded atmosphere.

NEWYORKER: M&M World

Fog hangs over Sportsman Lake, burning off as the sun rises.

FORBES: Hi-Ho, Nell

After that it is expected to become a red giant, as the hydrogen that presently comprises it is exhausted and the sun switches to burning helium instead.

ECONOMIST: Is there anybody out there?

There is a small fire burning among a tinderbox of surrounding sun-weary trees, presumably built by a ranger in the predawn cold.

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Sun exposure and indoor pollution from burning solid fuels are also risk factors.

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It is, first, an account of the many ways in which people have sought to produce energy by burning fossil fuels, harvesting the wind, brewing biodiesel and trapping the sun's heat.

ECONOMIST: Energy

"After hundreds of years orbiting the sun, they will enter our atmosphere at 90, 000 mph, burning up 50 miles above Earth's surface, " NASA said.

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