scorched
Example Sentences
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Just outside the town of San Martin de Valdeiglesias, a firefighting station was surrounded by scorched land, an AFP reporter said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Two people involved in the firefighting operation walk across a scorched, smoking hillside at Ryvoan, Abernethy, on 19 July.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
“We’ve had a fire in the cabin; it was a mobile phone that scorched the inside of the cabin,” a pilot on board the BA flight radioed to air-traffic controllers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
“Evil Dead Burn” — less an inferno than a partly scorched reheating — isn’t that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Little fingers of fire licked against the dry scored rind of the ancient tree and scorched it.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
