singed
Example Sentences
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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
Hall wants to do with the chimneys what Hill did by framing those singed pieces of music — to create a work of art born from disaster that symbolizes the will to carry on.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
Visually epic, sonically relentless and otherwise fatuous, the film has a dramatic inertia occasionally punctuated by eruptions of utter catastrophe—a series of shocks that leaves you singed, shaken and not much better for it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
A few hydrangeas were singed five feet from the walls of house, but the home was unscathed.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025
Figures staggered through the street with demented expressions, wild-eyed, their clothes singed, rags tied around burns.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
