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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

Chefs can sear meat, singe veggies and boil water ridiculously fast, Diamond says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2021

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

Kyrgios beats Rafa, actual pain singes my neural pathways.

From Golf Digest ● Jan. 27, 2020

And yet some of the dresses were shabby enough--frayed satin or faded stained brocade, the singes and the creases telling of hard service and rough usage.

From Stray Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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

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

And the singed hair on the heads of the people was frizzled and whitish and covered with dust.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

She flicked nervously at a lighter, singeing a cactus on the table in front of her.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2019

Sometimes he sets fire to the topmost layer, singeing its surface and revealing what’s below.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019

On fire, the car skidded across the patio and over the slate walk, singeing the grass as it wheeled and bounced across the yard.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott