scorching

Example Sentences

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It’s finally expected to cool down in Southern California this weekend after a scorching heat wave this week broke temperature records across the region.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

Molecules move between scorching temperatures deep inside the planet and cooler regions above, shifting between different states and rearranging themselves through thousands of reactions.

From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2026

Alcaraz sensationally broke back as Zverev served at 5-3 and it went to a tiebreak, where the world number one prevailed with a scorching forehand.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

Our critic praised the actress’s star turn, saying, she “gives a performance of extraordinary force, beauty and scorching truth.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

Showing no mercy, the sun burns through my black clothes, scorching the oil on my skin.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung