singe

The mural survived the Palisades fire with minor singe marks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025

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

He put a sinister singe on Taylor Swift’s “It’s Nice to Have a Friend” for the diabolical doll thriller “M3GAN.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

Whereas most hot sauces these days are in a competition to see who can singe your tonsils the most, I like that there's an actual balance to Humble House Ancho & Morita.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2022

At any second the hairs around his eyes would singe.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

Awe bleteth after lomb; Lhouth after calve cu: Bulluc sterteth, Buck verteth, Murie sing cuccu, Cuccu, cuccu, Wel singes this cuccu; Ne swik thu naver.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 368, May 2, 1829 by Various

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

Hales exited the home alone, and when she tried to go back inside, she was met with such intense heat and smoke that it singed her eyes, her brother Scott Nadler told KTLA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 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 the stick burned quickly, and before she could go far, the flame singed her hands and she threw it down.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

For Jessa Calderon, a Chumash and Tongva songwriter, these disconnects are ever-present in the concrete-hardened rivers snaking through Los Angeles, and the sour taste of industrialization often singeing the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024

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

They pick through the smoldering charcoal that’s been burned in the kiln for pieces that can still be used, inhaling the soot and singeing their fingers.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022

Sometimes he sets fire to the topmost layer, singeing its surface and revealing what’s below.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019

Four of them raced past, their heat singeing the hair off Jason’s arms.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan