scorched

Example Sentences

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Scorched watersheds can take years to recover, leaving fewer places to move fish in an emergency in the meanwhile.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025

Scorched earth notwithstanding, Wednesday was a crystalline late September day in the capital.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2020

Scorched fields lay all around, some still smoldering from the blaze that had destroyed nearly 2,500 acres of crops, including the 75 acres they had planted.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2019

A decent premise — and a game Gina Carano — get left in the dust kicked up by "Scorched Earth," a dull, draggy post-apocalyptic western set in the not-too-distant, environmentally toxic future.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2018

Scorched earth, she had said, and at that moment Izzy decided what she was going to do.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng