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The mural survived the Palisades fire with minor singe marks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025

Tossed with some sliced cabbage that’s spread on the pan next to the tofu, the sauce helps the thinner cabbage pieces singe and blacken appealingly.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024

In triple-digit heat, monkey bars singe children’s hands, water bottles warp and seatbelts feel like hot irons.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

In a feat of literary alchemy, Kingsolver uses the fire of that boy’s spirit to illuminate — and singe — the darkest recesses of our country.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022

If she wasn’t careful the match would singe her fingertips, or worse, light the entire attic on fire.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

The fried chicken is typically coated in a mixture of cayenne and paprika that singes the tongue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025

In an Aug. 12 inspection, Mr. Nimz found no major signs of char, cracks or singes to the main trunk or most of the tree’s more than 40 aerial roots.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

Then there’s the Chinatown-inspired chicken with cashews, smoky from the wok, which also singes the onions and ginkgo nuts in the assembly.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022

Kyrgios beats Rafa, actual pain singes my neural pathways.

From Golf Digest ● Jan. 27, 2020

The animals named are, hippopotames, baffles, antilopes, gazelles, ibex, chevrotains, les divers sangliers, petits singes, outardes, francolains, perdreaux, pintades and other game birds.

From A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State by Marcus Roberts Phipps Dorman

Possibly singed and mostly sandy, they storm the Mediterranean and return to their grills wet, steaming, and triumphant.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Hearty slices of calamari singed on the plancha gleam in the fading sunlight.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

In her memory, Ms. Phillips writes, “the brother closest to me whispers, their wings are flying up, as singed leaves laced with sparks scatter drowsily higher.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Some of the sailors even had singed hair because the flames were so close, the sailor added.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025

It was a fireball, an explosion of blue-red, and the heat of it singed the tips of his hair and scorched his eyes, so that both he and Mal had to cover their faces.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

He walked down Tahiti Avenue, flying embers singeing his skin, to Temescal Canyon Road, where he had parked his car.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025

I dipped them in the hardening brown goo with the scalding pan resting on a flowery potholder, one at a time, singeing my fingertips and waving my hand in pain.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2022

They pick through the smoldering charcoal that’s been burned in the kiln for pieces that can still be used, inhaling the soot and singeing their fingers.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022

“Broken Gargoyles” finds her voice as singeing as ever.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2022

I brushed the singeing ashes away from my face as I frantically grabbed for the door to open it.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals