torching

Example Sentences

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He was also seen torching a bot farm which appeared to show multiple phones streaming Kendrick Lamar's Grammy winning diss track, Not Like Us.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Another had her torching Japan’s pacifist postwar constitution, releasing a fiery-eyed specter wearing Japan’s wartime rising-sun flag.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 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

I also find myself wondering whether a justice speaking out within the confines of a dissent—as opposed to, say, setting her robes on fire—is truly torching institutions or even institutional norms.

From Slate • Jul. 9, 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