singe
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His attacks — “They’re weird!” — tend to singe, not burn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
Berkshire’s biggest singe investment in Apple shares remained essentially unchanged at 915.6 million shares.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 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
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
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
And if I go to the Gaiety and find that a cigar or cigarette on my right or left singes my whiskers I will have the law of Mr. George Edwardes.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
Possibly singed and mostly sandy, they storm the Mediterranean and return to their grills wet, steaming, and triumphant.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Hearty slices of calamari singed on the plancha gleam in the fading sunlight.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
She also had singed feathers on both sides of her body, but especially on the right, where Rogers said the wing looked particularly damaged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 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
At her feet, a section of the deck had been reduced to a circle of charcoal, but her cloak wasn’t even singed.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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
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
In most movies, and perhaps especially in a handful of singeing “Sopranos” episodes, “somewhere” makes her vital.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2017
On fire, the car skidded across the patio and over the slate walk, singeing the grass as it wheeled and bounced across the yard.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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