How to Use scorch in a Sentence

scorch

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• Overall, the Suns shot a scorching 56.8% from the floor.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• The homes and yards right next to that first dirt road, where the cars were trapped, are now scorched black.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
• Some plants may have brown, scorched leaves, and some may die.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2023
• The survival of the tree is in question: many of its limbs have been scorched.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2023
• Invest in a flat iron that doesn't just scorch your hair.
  — ELLE, 23 June 2022
• The first is that under watering can scorch or burn the leaves.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2024
• Buildings are left scorched with debris strewn across the road in the kibbutz.
  — Richard Engel, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• The ground where the vehicle was had been blackened by the fire, and scorched items lay scattered.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Roofs have been torn off, walls scorched and windows blown out.
  — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• Williams scorched Arkansas early and was key to the Tigers scoring the game's first 18 points.
  — Ethan Westerman, arkansasonline.com, 22 Jan. 2024
• The foil over the pan will help the potatoes steam and turn tender and keep the sugar mixture from scorching.
  — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 7 July 2023
• But a scorching rinse may be making your face even more parched.
  — Jessica Cruel, SELF, 3 Oct. 2023
• In this case, it’s honey, which will scorch in a hot oven when cooked for more than 10 minutes.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2022
• In that case, the door to a utility substation was scorched but the fire didn’t go inside.
  — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• So far, two deaths in Beijing have been attributed to the scorching heat.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
• Spread a thin layer of mayonnaise on the outside of the bread (this will keep it from scorching on the griddle).
  — Jill Wendholt Silva, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
• The Lakers were scorching through the end of the year while the Grizzlies dropped four of their last seven games to end the regular season.
  — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• Boats in the harbor were scorched, and smoke hovered over the town, which dates to the 1700s and is the biggest community on the island's west side.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Aug. 2023
• The scorching conditions have been blamed for at least 13 deaths in the state, health officials said.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 1 July 2023
• The three wooden crosses, which had been a mahogany brown color, had been scorched to black.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• Cars were smashed and scorched, and shops were closed as people gathered in the streets and offered food to one another.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 July 2023
• The fire had blackened the cemetery’s soil, scorching trees and dumping ash on white gravestones.
  — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2023
• Since 1943, a hit parade of swinging jazz tracks, scorching rockers and hip-hop bangers have ranked as the year’s top song.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
• Be sure to toast the flour carefully and slowly while watching for color changes so the flour does not scorch.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2024
• Brown kept the inning alive with a scorching comebacker toward the mound.
  — Nubyjas Wilborn | [e-mail], al, 2 June 2023
• Asked to put out the fire, John Schreiber was instead scorched for a bases-clearing double by Josh Naylor that made it 6-5.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• Plus, spring is the ideal time to visit before these desert gems start scorching in the summer heat.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
• The weather in Las Vegas on Thursday is scorching, with a high of 102 degrees.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2023
• The scorching new track is stuffed with dizzying riffs that always seem to lead to downbeat punches.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2024
• The extreme fire danger includes areas scorched by the Smokehouse Creek Fire.
  — Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2024

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scorch

2 of 2 noun

• Other parts of the world have felt the scorch this year.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• The grease left a scorch mark on the brick below the drive-thru window.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 26 Apr. 2022
• There are scorch marks on the pavement where a city truck was burned.
  — Bill Glauber, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2020
• But black scorch marks above the grate revealed fires that had once burned in it.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2020
• The fire at the Way, however, burned other bins and left scorch marks on the back wall of the church.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• Thousands of trees, burned and chairlifts still bear scorch marks from the blaze.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Nov. 2021
• The burning of the flag left scorch marks on the front porch but there was no structural damage due to the fire, police said.
  — Hartford Courant, 18 Nov. 2022
• The saucepan also performed well in our scorch test — barely any sauce stuck to the bottom of it.
  — Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping, 20 May 2022
• All of them are guaranteed to slide you into a cool comfort zone that soothes the scorch of the hottest days.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 23 July 2021
• Cold enough for you … ? … asked no one living in our scorch-and-sizzle places.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• There were scorch marks in places where soldiers had prepared food.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017
• The Newport News Daily Press reports that the torching left a large scorch mark in the pavement.
  — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 6 July 2019
• There were scorch marks in places where soldiers had prepared food.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017
• The scorch marks across the landscape are visible from satellites.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2019
• Both Bird and Lime seem to be wising up to the limitations of the scorch-the-earth strategy.
  — Johana Bhuiyan, Recode, 30 Aug. 2018
• As the sun rose, close-up views showed the large white and black capsule upright with hardly any scorch marks from re-entry.
  — Marcia Dunn, SFChronicle.com, 22 Dec. 2019
• Leaf scorch: Leaf margins will have a brown or burned appearance.
  — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2020
• Synagogue staff also found scorch marks from recent fires set in front of the doors to the sanctuary.
  — oregonlive, 7 May 2022
• And dozens of rare sea turtles washed up on Sri Lanka's beaches, some with what appeared to be scorch marks on their shells.
  — Helen Regan and Chandler Thornton, CNN, 24 July 2021
• Leaf scorch is not the only possible reason for browned leaves.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2022
• Otherwise, its effort to light a fire under HBO Max could leave scorch marks.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2020
• The presidential helicopter isn’t supposed to leave scorch marks on the White House lawn.
  — Fortune, 20 July 2019
• The inside walls, floors and appliances had been spray painted and a gun safe had scorch marks on it from a blow torch, according to court records.
  — oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2021
• Nothing takes the edge off summer scorch as effectively as a few cold beers.
  — Kara Martinez Bachman, NOLA.com, 31 May 2017
• Issa trashes her apartment, prompted by the presence of the scorch marks still left behind on her ceiling from the garbage fire in episode one.
  — Cate Young, Cosmopolitan, 4 Sep. 2017
• Examining tree rings and scorch marks, Stephens was able to construct a record of fires dating back to the sixteen-hundreds.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• Recent missile firings might leave minor scorch marks or fouling on the Lubeck’s paint job, but the ship looks pristine.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2018
• Folks came out in droves, not only to compete, but to cheer on competitors and sample scorch-worthy fare.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 21 July 2022
• Fires suspected to be started by faulty electrical wiring scorch homes in Milwaukee’s poorest ZIP code at five times the rate of the rest of the city.
  — jsonline.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• Cook over medium heat, stirring often to ensure that the semolina doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pot and scorch, until porridge thickens and has a nutty aroma, 15-20 minutes.
  — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024