Wher-so [thou] comest in any cost, Who is next fyr, he brenneth most.
Hir eyen two were cleer and light As any candel that brenneth bright; 3200 And on hir heed she hadde a crown.
A good manbrenneth in his thought For shame, whan he axeth ought.
The more thou seest in sothfastnesse, 2465 The more thou coveytest of that swetnesse; The more thyn herte brenneth in fyr, The more thyn herte is in desyr.
What brydles mighten withholden, to any certein ende, the desordenee covetise of men, whan, ever the rather that it fleteth in large yiftes, the more ay brenneth in hem the thurst of havinge?
And thus she brenneth bothe in love and drede, So that she niste what was best to rede.
But the anguissous love of havinge brenneth in folk more cruely than the fyr of the mountaigne Ethna, that ay brenneth.
Upon sondri creacion Stant sondri operacion, Som worcheth this, som worcheth that; The fyr is hot in his astat And brenneth what he mai atteigne, The water mai the fyr restreigne, The which is cold and moist also.
The thridde, is foule wordes, that fareth lyk fyr, that right anon brenneth the herte.
I say, how can that fire be, That tormenteth but one living man, greater Than that fire that brenneth a whole city here, And all the people therein?
Marry, for that fire is greatest, That brenneth very sore, and lasteth longest; And greater is the fire that brenneth one soul, Than that which brenneth an hundred bodies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brenneth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
