singe

Drake didn’t find a shortcut to the exotic East, and he headed back to singe the Spanish king’s beard closer to home and to English supply lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025

A little singe around the edges of the bread will remind you of the coal-fire char of the original.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2023

In the oven’s heat, their tips singe and brown, turning irresistibly crisp.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2022

She would inspect chicken livers to excise discolored spots, and singe pinfeathers off chicken over a gas flame.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2022

The firefighters held their position until the fierce heat began to singe the hair on their heads and arms, and their clothes began to smolder.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy

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

Kyrgios beats Rafa, actual pain singes my neural pathways.

From Golf Digest ● Jan. 27, 2020

And the dialogue, oh, how it singes and sears!

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2019

And if I go to the Gaiety and find that a cigar or cigarette on my right or left singes my whiskers I will have the law of Mr. George Edwardes.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman

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

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

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

She also had singed feathers on both sides of her body, but especially on the right, where Rogers said the wing looked particularly damaged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025

He’d survived the same fire I had, though his wings were so singed he would never fly properly again.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

For Jessa Calderon, a Chumash and Tongva songwriter, these disconnects are ever-present in the concrete-hardened rivers snaking through Los Angeles, and the sour taste of industrialization often singeing the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024

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

Sometimes he sets fire to the topmost layer, singeing its surface and revealing what’s below.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019

My eyes travel up to where the flames licked across his forehead, singeing away his brows but just missing his eyes.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins