blackened
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Ragged strips of aluminium hung from torn-open structures, while stray dogs roamed through blackened pipes and mounds of rubble.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
AFP video footage showed that the fire had burned down the mosque's interior carpeting and blackened the walls.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Jane Ward is turning the blackened, mouldy pages of a Mr Men book.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Four Marines crouch in the foreground surrounded by the blackened remains of burned trees; in the top two-thirds of the picture the black-and-white smoke of the blast billows upward, beautiful in its destruction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Above my head, a chalkboard sign lists today’s specials: roasted cream of tomato soup with house-made garlic croutons, blackened chili-lime salmon with rice and mango salsa, and double-chocolate lava mudslide with raspberry coulis for dessert.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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