singe
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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
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
Dorie advises putting a few slices in the toaster, so the heat can singe the edges, revive the texture and intensify the citrus and spice flavors.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2023
In the oven’s heat, their tips singe and brown, turning irresistibly crisp.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2022
By the time the moon shone fully through the window, he had begun to singe Luna’s nightgown.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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
The bright-winged moth singes itself in the brilliant gaslight sometimes where the caterpillar never comes.
From Three People by Pansy
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
As she spoke, her eye caught sight of some new greenery already popping up in a completely singed field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
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
The Dragon howled with rage and spat a wall of flame that singed Rowan's hair and eyebrows.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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
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
She flicked nervously at a lighter, singeing a cactus on the table in front of her.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2019
I feel the heat on my back, singeing the ends of my hair.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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