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His attacks — “They’re weird!” — tend to singe, not burn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

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 a feat of literary alchemy, Kingsolver uses the fire of that boy’s spirit to illuminate — and singe — the darkest recesses of our country.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022

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

Then there’s the Chinatown-inspired chicken with cashews, smoky from the wok, which also singes the onions and ginkgo nuts in the assembly.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022

Kyrgios beats Rafa, actual pain singes my neural pathways.

From Golf Digest ● Jan. 27, 2020

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

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

A few hydrangeas were singed five feet from the walls of house, but the home was unscathed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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

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

Avians found dead along power lines are often assumed to have died from electrocution, especially if their bodies show burns or singeing, said Eve Thomason, a wildlife biologist at Boise State University in Idaho.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

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

The brand missed Grendel, but it crashed to the floor beside the prostrate figure of Hrothgar, singeing his red hair where the great homed helmet had been knocked off.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye