How to Use scorched in a Sentence

scorched

adjective

• Seedling by seedling, Joshua trees will rise again in the fire-scorched desert.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• What was left of her house was a scorched concrete hole in the ground.
  — Kathryn Scanlan, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• The scorched vines mean that there will be no 2020 harvest.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2020
• Some of their bodies burned to ash in the carcass of scorched cars.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2020
• Videos from the scene of one strike appeared to show a crater of scorched earth in the middle of a playground.
  — Cora Engelbrecht, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
• But left behind will be the scorched earth that is prone to runoff and flash flooding.
  — CNN, 1 Aug. 2021
• Today, a big deal in the scorched-earth battle of morning TV.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 June 2022
• Geese seem to find these scorched areas within a day or two.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 7 Jan. 2021
• The actor and legendary standup comic known for his raw, scorched voice and crude jokes.
  — Bernard McGhee, al, 31 Dec. 2022
• And the other one going full-on, junior high scorched earth.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 19 May 2022
• Here, too, there’s plenty of snow (and beneath it, plenty of scorched earth).
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2022
• Captain’s scorched and mottled fur looked as though it had been dipped in ashes and rolled in mud.
  — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• The scorched-earth impacts of climate change have arrived.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2020
• No one knows the total death toll from the scorched-earth battles, firing squads, and famines that swept back and forth across the land for three years.
  — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2022
• Now just about every native oak tree is scorched and black, with leafy new growth emerging amid the char.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
• Make sure your indoor plants don't overdo it on sunlight and end up scorched and sad.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2022
• But are Russia's scorched-earth advances in the Donbas a sign that the tide of war has shifted in its favor?
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 27 May 2022
• It’s all part of the company’s scorched-earth cost-cutting measures now in progress.
  — Brock Keeling, Curbed, 13 Dec. 2022
• Short of any such scorched-earth solution, though, the Tomahawk Chop is here to stay.
  — Jeva Lange, The Week, 28 Oct. 2021
• Taft dressed one man’s burned hands and feet, then turned to help two more patients: one with burns to the face, another with scorched arms and legs.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2020
• All eight Labs were cut loose and were flying through the field at once in a scorched-earth frenzy, right in my direction.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 4 Dec. 2020
• Footage captured by state media on Tuesday showed a swathe of the scorched Earth and pieces of the plane scattered on the ground with numbers placed next to them.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
• The fire had later reached here, too, and the building was a scorched shell, with only a few pieces of gym equipment left standing.
  — Diana Markosian, National Geographic, 21 Sep. 2020
• Things like scorched tomato sauce can be a pain to scrub off and ruin that mirror-shiny finish.
  — Elizabeth Sheldon, Good Housekeeping, 1 Sep. 2020
• Despite the bush fire devastation, and in many cases because of it, the scorched earth soon sprang to life.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
• The blaze torched trees along California Highway 96, and the scorched remains of a pickup truck sat in a lane of the highway.
  — Noah Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022
• The camera pans across her bare room and body before landing on her scorched hands clasping the letters.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
• It’s a punishing, scorched-earth warfare that takes a heavy toll on civilians.
  — Liz Sly, Catherine Belton, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2022
• Wolkoff went scorched earth on her ex-BFF of nearly two decades in this vengeful tell-all, out in September.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2020
• Aerial footage of the fire from KATU (2) showed a large scorched area with smoke billowing up and flames moving toward a large grove of trees.
  — The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 15 July 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024