stain

Her burned bureau and the black soot staining the wall reignited her past trauma.

The shore on this section of the northwest coast has been transformed by the flood water which now stains the beach.

All Muslim children in New York, Mr. Mamdani asserted, are “marked as the other” and made to feel “they carry a stain that can never quite be cleaned.”

A woman screamed as she hunched over the body of one of the victims, who were laid out in a line, covered in make-shift shrouds, some stained with blood.

Exiting Raffles onto the busy road, I noticed across the street the spire of a snow-white Gothic chapel with stained glass windows.