singe

His attacks — “They’re weird!” — tend to singe, not burn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

Tossed with some sliced cabbage that’s spread on the pan next to the tofu, the sauce helps the thinner cabbage pieces singe and blacken appealingly.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024

He put a sinister singe on Taylor Swift’s “It’s Nice to Have a Friend” for the diabolical doll thriller “M3GAN.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

In a feat of literary alchemy, Kingsolver uses the fire of that boy’s spirit to illuminate — and singe — the darkest recesses of our country.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022

If she wasn’t careful the match would singe her fingertips, or worse, light the entire attic on fire.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

The fried chicken is typically coated in a mixture of cayenne and paprika that singes the tongue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025

In an Aug. 12 inspection, Mr. Nimz found no major signs of char, cracks or singes to the main trunk or most of the tree’s more than 40 aerial roots.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

Kyrgios beats Rafa, actual pain singes my neural pathways.

From Golf Digest ● Jan. 27, 2020

And the dialogue, oh, how it singes and sears!

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2019

Roosevelt belonged to the other school in the conduct of affairs which Anatole France praises because it never forgets that men are "des mauvais singes."

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert

Hearty slices of calamari singed on the plancha gleam in the fading sunlight.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Possibly singed and mostly sandy, they storm the Mediterranean and return to their grills wet, steaming, and triumphant.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Visually epic, sonically relentless and otherwise fatuous, the film has a dramatic inertia occasionally punctuated by eruptions of utter catastrophe—a series of shocks that leaves you singed, shaken and not much better for it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

Some of the sailors even had singed hair because the flames were so close, the sailor added.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025

Her dark blue uniform was only slightly singed.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

For Jessa Calderon, a Chumash and Tongva songwriter, these disconnects are ever-present in the concrete-hardened rivers snaking through Los Angeles, and the sour taste of industrialization often singeing the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024

Avians found dead along power lines are often assumed to have died from electrocution, especially if their bodies show burns or singeing, said Eve Thomason, a wildlife biologist at Boise State University in Idaho.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

I dipped them in the hardening brown goo with the scalding pan resting on a flowery potholder, one at a time, singeing my fingertips and waving my hand in pain.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2022

Sometimes he sets fire to the topmost layer, singeing its surface and revealing what’s below.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019

It grazed poor Chitchat, singeing the end of her tail, but she ignored the pain and scurried up to the safety of the canopy.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown