singed

Example Sentences

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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

Hall wants to do with the chimneys what Hill did by framing those singed pieces of music — to create a work of art born from disaster that symbolizes the will to carry on.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

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

A few hydrangeas were singed five feet from the walls of house, but the home was unscathed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

For several minutes I sat dumbstruck, staring at the wreckage of the tent’s once-graceful form amid the acrid scent of singed hair and melted nylon.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer