singe
Example Sentences
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Take 2002’s “Strawberry,” where he singed, dyed and arranged endpapers to form roughly articulated, unstable rectangles that referred to and upended the history of the modernist grid.
From New York Times
The story of how a handful of 21st century “forty-niners” wound up searching for gold on a singed landscape studded with Joshua trees arcs back nearly 100 years, entangling an eclectic cast of characters.
From Los Angeles Times
Glass and debris shot onto the pathway, which was singed by flames that also ignited a nearby tree.
From Los Angeles Times
The deliberate burning and singeing of 26 cypress and palm trees throughout Northeast Los Angeles has triggered alarm among locals and an investigation by authorities.
From Los Angeles Times
"You will have to pry my blowtorch out of my cold, dead, singed hands."
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.