singed
Example Sentences
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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
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
Along the roadway, Ballantyne pointed out two peach trees, now completely singed.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025
Oddly enough, the singed calf that “Peg Leg” Sullivan had helped escape came and stood by the Lees until dawn.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
