scorch
Example Sentences
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Migrants wait under the scorching sun of the Atacama desert in Chile to cross the border into Peru.
From Barron's
Indeed, so much of Abha, the capital of the southwestern province of Asir, seems a world away — and two dozen degrees cooler — from the scorching desert that dominates Western notions of the kingdom.
From Los Angeles Times
Photographs show a scorched and mangled drone, and satellite images reveal the extent of the damage to the terrain.
Mosses are well known for surviving in places that challenge most life, including the Himalayan peaks, the scorching deserts of Death Valley, the Antarctic tundra, and the cooling surfaces of active volcanoes.
From Science Daily
It was her first day back, and she had just walked through a sea of scorched Joshua trees rising from blackened earth, their dagger-like leaves bleached an unhealthy yellow.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
