singe
Example Sentences
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Drake didn’t find a shortcut to the exotic East, and he headed back to singe the Spanish king’s beard closer to home and to English supply lines.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025
Tossed with some sliced cabbage that’s spread on the pan next to the tofu, the sauce helps the thinner cabbage pieces singe and blacken appealingly.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2024
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
She would inspect chicken livers to excise discolored spots, and singe pinfeathers off chicken over a gas flame.
From New York Times • May 2, 2022
It has the power to singe, to sear, to incinerate, but it holds back.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing singe
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling
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The Sea of Monsters
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"Uprising," Vocabulary from the historical novel
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