burnedout

The candlestick was clotted with wax from the burnedout candle; I tipped a small puddle of melted wax onto the tabletop and set the fresh candle in it, heedless of damage to the Duke's intaglio.

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

It may be buried in sheltered ravines, or float in high clouds over burnedout lands, but there is life.

The Silent Warrior Modesitt, L. E. 1987

"Zeke, the friend of yours who found your burnedout apartment, also found an image of you in the bathroom mirror,"

In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

          Forcing his way through the tangle -- and flushing from its nesting place a quick, furry thing he tardily recognized as a rabbit -- Chaney stumbled upon the burnedout base of a building nearly lost in the undergrowth.

Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970

The shell of a burnedout truck had caused one of them, and that rusted shell still occupied the hole.

Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970

The wall was built of cement and cinder blocks; of wrecked or stolen automobiles, burnedout shells of city buses, sabotaged police cars, looted and stripped semi-trailer trucks; of upended furniture, broken concrete, bricks, debris, garbage, excretion.

Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970

Steve Greer (as Mark, the Viet vet) plays the classic burnedout junkie, yet another stereotype that we could afford to live down.

Chicago Reader 2010

No huge hotel chains or restaraunts, just alot of travelers, hippies and burnedout locals.

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