scorched

Finally, in November, they launched out on their storied and infamous scorched-earth March to the Sea.

“Scorched earth,” historically, means destroying land to deprive the encroaching enemy of its use.

Satellite pictures show that at the heart of the debris field is a large area of intense fire where the earth has been scorched.

However, the incumbent pulled out victory with a scorched-earth campaign.

And we would imagine how long it took for the scorched earth to transform into a field where something new had grown.

He had the sun-scorched look of a traveller who has just crossed the Atlantic, and he smiled at Bernard with his honest eyes.

She has just ridden in from the Bois de Boulogne, and has scorched half the way back to meet her “officier” in pale blue.

His mouth dried up, his fingers scorched with fever, and his eye ceased to see from his staring too hard.

Then, he carefully unfastened the scorched cloth which formed that bag and examined its contents.

The grass and shrubs were scorched, withered, and powdered with dust, which rose in clouds behind every passing wagon.