scorched
Example Sentences
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Scorched watersheds can take years to recover, leaving fewer places to move fish in an emergency in the meanwhile.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025
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
To Trixie, “even the apocalypse is cute. Scorched earth. Galloping black horses foaming at the mouth. The shadow of the scythe-wielding dealer of Fate bearing down on her. All super cute.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2016
Scorched bricks with wild grass growing all around the lot.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
