scald

I eat it standing, careful not to scald my tongue.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

The NHS advises to call 111 if your child has a burn or scald, and you are not sure what to do.

From BBC ● May 4, 2026

When this anger boiled over, it threatened to scald more than the British.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Leo’s veterinarian said in his case file that he had been losing weight throughout the year and had urine scald, a condition the vet said couldn’t be treated in the lab setting.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

I felt my red skin was going to scald plumb off, and then I’d look just like that poor antelope.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Her famous parting words as the doctor leads her away, “Whoever you are — I have always depended on the kindness of strangers,” scalds anew.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025

Staff nurse John Davies said the burns centre saw 20-30 patients with scalds from hot water bottles every year.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2022

Taking the play in is like sipping a rarefied eau de vie, the kind that scalds as it cools.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2019

One twin falls down the crumbling stairs of her Calcutta house and breaks her ankle; the other scalds her thigh on a tipped cup of coffee in a European station.

From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2016

The day in and day out of needle pricks, scalds, and raw-skinned hands from cooking and scrubbing was wearing on me.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The award harks back to civil court judgments against McDonald’s after a jury in 1994 awarded $3 million to an Albuquerque woman who was scalded by hot coffee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2025

"He looked like he'd been scalded by hot water," the mother of three told the BBC.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024

So McDonald's had a responsibility not to make coffee that burned you, that scalded you.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2023

So hot that you could be scalded by the first blast of sunbaked water to come out of the garden hose.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2023

After the pigs were scalded in the big iron tripod kettle and their skins were scraped and white, Jody had to go to the water-tub to sit in the grass until his heart grew quiet.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

A record-breaking heat wave is scalding California, with major consequences for the state’s most important reservoir: its snowpack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

The title invokes the container for holding scalding liquid metal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

She says she did not pursue a complaint because she feared that being a junior member of the team, "chances were, I'd be booted off the production, and he may have only got a scalding".

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

On a particularly scalding summer day, my friend wanted Chinese food, so I opted to get fried tofu with mixed vegetables and white rice delivered.

From Salon ● May 21, 2025

Lyddie nibbled at the brown bread and washed it down with a little scalding tea.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson