scorch
Example Sentences
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They were among thousands of other swimmers, surfers and sunbathers who had flocked to Australia's most famous beach on a scorching summer's afternoon.
From BBC
The blaze scorched fences, outbuildings and pool equipment around his childhood home, yet spared the main house.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
