scorched
Example Sentences
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Its 14,000 residents paid a heavy price for their resistance: Scorched, wrecked buildings sit alongside structures left untouched, as if a tornado tore through town.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2022
Chapter titles like “A Scorched Earth” and “Bad, Animals, Bad” lend a sense of heft and portent to Ritchie’s bloody modern legend, executed with a brawny, muscular élan.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2021
Scorched earth notwithstanding, Wednesday was a crystalline late September day in the capital.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2020
Scorched utility poles and fallen wires lined the roads.
From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2020
Scorched bricks with wild grass growing all around the lot.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
