torching

Example Sentences

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In Mission Hills, firefighters put out a blaze after several cypress trees caught fire, torching two vehicles and raging close to homes, after 9 p.m., according to the LAFD.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2026

McIlroy, the player torching the field, would first have to run suddenly cold, and then Lowry would need some magic of his own.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

As the criminals angrily described it to the BBC, "they yanked their own plug - tanking sales, burning logistics, and torching shareholder value".

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2025

After torching their rent-controlled apartment in one of their more disastrous schemes, Mac and Dennis are forced to relocate, landing in a cookie-cutter home an hour outside of Philadelphia.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025

Yet Grover drove through the whole grand catastrophe undistracted, as though the torching of a place simply did not matter to him, or as though it were no more than some histrionics he’d ordered up.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen