torching

Example Sentences

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McIlroy, the player torching the field, would first have to run suddenly cold, and then Lowry would need some magic of his own.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

As the criminals angrily described it to the BBC, "they yanked their own plug - tanking sales, burning logistics, and torching shareholder value".

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2025

After torching their rent-controlled apartment in one of their more disastrous schemes, Mac and Dennis are forced to relocate, landing in a cookie-cutter home an hour outside of Philadelphia.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025

One person likened the move to “the torching of the library at Alexandria” by Julius Caesar.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025

Only the torching and the fat fellow arrived by the front door; the rest came by secret ways, through tunnels and hidden passages.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin