char

When you try to set fire to wood treated with Burnblock, the material forms a protective layer of char, explains Mr Bay-Smidt.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

You burn it and char it, and you use it to build fences or whatever it is you’re trying to build.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025

If you’re feeling theatrical, hit the top with a torch for a kiss of char.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025

Because jacarandas across the county sustained significant bark char and crown damage, L.A.’s purple bloom was down some patches this year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025

The varnish around the drab began to bubble and char in a black ring around the piece of iron.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Avcoat is a mix of silica fibers, phenolic microballoons, and epoxy resin that chars and erodes, removing heat away.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

“It’s like in forest fires where big, old-growth trees survive by charcoaling. The exterior chars, but the inside survives.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

But this time, Spears chars her publicly despised ex-boyfriend with accusations of cultural appropriation.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2023

The near-direct heat chars the peaks of the skewered meat, and the valleys catch little pools of caramelizing sauce.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

Temperature, weather, ordinary shock have absolutely no effect on it; in fire it simply chars and doesn't explode.

From The Cab of the Sleeping Horse by John Reed Scott

Some of those who returned to the red zone found buildings reduced to charred, empty shells; in other cases, homes had been looted.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Apropos for a story about people on the margins, his settings are liminal: a highway shoulder, a charred underpass, a real-life fast food drive-through.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

In 2015, he demonstrated the successful digital unrolling of a charred scroll recovered from a synagogue that burned around 600 C.E.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

We really enjoyed the whole grilled fish with charred lemon and spicy jerk wings.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2022

The destruction reminded Carmen of the pictures she’d seen in the newspapers of the battlefields of the Great War—the cities and forests of France and Belgium turned to charred ruins.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis

Images captured by divers shortly after splashdown, along with follow-up checks aboard the recovery ship, show that the charring seen during Artemis I was significantly reduced in both size and amount.

From Science Daily ● May 4, 2026

An unlikely, spicy, crunchy retooling of spaghetti with chili-spiked tomato sauce, it requires cooking the pasta and the sauce in the same pan, to the point of charring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

Ean's cause of death could not be determined but a forensic pathologist told the court there were areas of charring to soft tissue and bone.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025

Along Highview Avenue, the fire burned down to the curbs, charring numbers that identified which house had once stood where.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025

Around the edges, me and Jay’s book-shoes are charring.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes