singe
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His attacks — “They’re weird!” — tend to singe, not burn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
In triple-digit heat, monkey bars singe children’s hands, water bottles warp and seatbelts feel like hot irons.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
A little singe around the edges of the bread will remind you of the coal-fire char of the original.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2023
In the oven’s heat, their tips singe and brown, turning irresistibly crisp.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2022
Alex felt it singe his shoulders, yelled, and threw himself to one side.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
The fried chicken is typically coated in a mixture of cayenne and paprika that singes the tongue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025
In an Aug. 12 inspection, Mr. Nimz found no major signs of char, cracks or singes to the main trunk or most of the tree’s more than 40 aerial roots.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Kyrgios beats Rafa, actual pain singes my neural pathways.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 27, 2020
And the dialogue, oh, how it singes and sears!
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2019
His fire of spirit fills it from end to end; but never deforms the body, never singes the surface of the work, as too often in the still noble books of his later life.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hearty slices of calamari singed on the plancha gleam in the fading sunlight.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Possibly singed and mostly sandy, they storm the Mediterranean and return to their grills wet, steaming, and triumphant.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
Some of the sailors even had singed hair because the flames were so close, the sailor added.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
Only the other day he had singed old Brother Methuselah’s whiskers while lighting candles.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
He walked down Tahiti Avenue, flying embers singeing his skin, to Temescal Canyon Road, where he had parked his car.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
Avians found dead along power lines are often assumed to have died from electrocution, especially if their bodies show burns or singeing, said Eve Thomason, a wildlife biologist at Boise State University in Idaho.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
I dipped them in the hardening brown goo with the scalding pan resting on a flowery potholder, one at a time, singeing my fingertips and waving my hand in pain.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2022
Sometimes he sets fire to the topmost layer, singeing its surface and revealing what’s below.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019
The brand missed Grendel, but it crashed to the floor beside the prostrate figure of Hrothgar, singeing his red hair where the great homed helmet had been knocked off.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
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