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The mural survived the Palisades fire with minor singe marks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025

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

The firefighters held their position until the fierce heat began to singe the hair on their heads and arms, and their clothes began to smolder.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy

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

Then, the whole thing is roasted until the top singes, while the underside collapses into something silky and sweet.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

Jens Glob stands so deeply wrapped in thought, that he singes the skirt of his wide garment.

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

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

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

Twelve attendees — including an 82-year-old woman who lost her home in the fire — stretched out their mats on the green grass beneath a singed eucalyptus tree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

Rumpy sniffed around the smoking-platform, barking as a coal singed his nose.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

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

With war singeing the European Union’s eastern edge, French voters will make a choice in a presidential election that will have an effect beyond the country’s borders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2022

I lit the match and it sizzled to life, the burnt sulfur smell singeing my nostrils.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon