scald
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I eat it standing, careful not to scald my tongue.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
When the burn or scald has cooled, lay cling film over it, if possible.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
When this anger boiled over, it threatened to scald more than the British.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
He noted a major concern was the overheating asphalt, which could scald paws.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
He is stooped, spindly, his long hair full of sticks, with a scald crow perched on one shoulder.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Sy Baumgartner, a 70-year-old professor of philosophy at Princeton, scalds his hand at the stove.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
He said: "Even superficial burns, such as scalds, are very, very painful because the nerve endings are still exposed."
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2022
One twin falls down the crumbling stairs of her Calcutta house and breaks her ankle; the other scalds her thigh on a tipped cup of coffee in a European station.
From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2016
While scalds and falls on tile can inflict serious harm in the bathroom, modern kitchen appliances and gadgets offer many more opportunities for injury.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2013
This time it's an acidic substance that scalds my throat and makes its way into my nose as well.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
"He looked like he'd been scalded by hot water," the mother of three told the BBC.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024
An estimated 100,000 children scalded yearly by hot food and beverages.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2023
So hot that you could be scalded by the first blast of sunbaked water to come out of the garden hose.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2023
Vargas and Outman walked with two outs in the bottom of the eighth, but Rojas scalded a 99-mph line drive right at shortstop Nick Ahmed to end the inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2023
I heated the big kettle of water and poured it into the galvanized tub and sat in it like a scalded potato, alone in this world, just crying.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Meanwhile, his shower alternated between freezing cold and "scalding hot".
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The unseasonable heat will linger into Friday, weaken slightly over the weekend and then dial up to scalding again next week, according to the National Weather Service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
The title invokes the container for holding scalding liquid metal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
The building’s windows were leaky, which means big trouble in North Dakota’s frigid winters and scalding summers.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
Then they had to be lifted from the cones and moved to the scalding tank.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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