singed

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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

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

But also reweave our singed civic fabric, the places of daily life that make a vast city meaningful and manageable: businesses, public parks, houses of worship, schools, libraries.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2025

The wooden bowl burst into flames then, a huge gout of flame which singed the leaves of the oak tree far above them.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman