singed

Example Sentences

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In her memory, Ms. Phillips writes, “the brother closest to me whispers, their wings are flying up, as singed leaves laced with sparks scatter drowsily higher.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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

Twelve attendees — including an 82-year-old woman who lost her home in the fire — stretched out their mats on the green grass beneath a singed eucalyptus tree.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025

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

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025

One was torn, and the feathers were singed.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda