singed

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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

The cage protected Pelicarnassus, mostly, but they heard him yell “My feathers!” and saw that he’d been singed.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness