How to Use searing in a Sentence

searing

adjective

• She felt a searing pain in her foot.
• She made a searing attack on her political enemies.
• Both goals came from searing crosses to the back side of the goal.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 29 May 2021
• The images were some of the most searing of the pandemic.
  — Biman Mukherji, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2022
• Clothes were laid out on the ground to dry under a searing sun.
  — Paul Leblanc, CNN, 19 Sep. 2021
• The point is, the searing summer months are a great time to try out these cool, tasty drinks.
  — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 27 June 2024
• His head was caked with blood that had dried quickly in the searing heat.
  — Andrew Downie, Time, 3 Dec. 2022
• Albrecht wore a face mask much of that season to cope with the searing smoke.
  — Madeline Ostrander, The Atlantic, 23 July 2022
• The crew had languished for weeks at the mercy of storms, a searing sun and the constant threat of shark attacks.
  — Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
• The searing heat is making its way to the Upper Midwest.
  — Julius Lasin, USA TODAY, 15 July 2021
• The sting of a yellow jacket, hornet, or wasp is sharp, searing, and hot.
  — Hannah Hoag, Quartz, 16 Nov. 2020
• As blazes burned across Portugal, the searing heat smashed records.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
• By Danin Pepper is a high-end hot sauce that gives every dish a searing bite.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2023
• It’s a searing portrait of a working-class man who has struggled all his life to achieve.
  — Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 9 Oct. 2022
• Many have been forced to spend hours in the searing heat to fill their tanks at gas stations, or to receive supplies of food and medicine.
  — Iqbal Athas, CNN, 7 May 2022
• The triple-digit record was not a freak event, either, but instead part of a searing heat wave.
  — Washington Post, 3 July 2020
• As are the emotions that Wright and her cast display in a searing portrait of death and rebirth.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2021
• Of course, the searing rally in the stocks could be the result of excessive optimism and the stocks could fall.
  — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2020
• Even the iPhone 14 Pro Max doesn't have the zoom range for it, and the phone's autoexposure will turn the moon into a searing blob of white.
  — WIRED, 19 Mar. 2023
• And that balance means that the training is often more fun—not the slog of marathon training and not the searing pain of 5k training.
  — Carl Leivers, Outside Online, 20 Jan. 2020
• The searing heat has forced outdoor workers like Das to change their working hours.
  — Soumya Sarkar, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2022
• What a searing indictment of freelance life this episode has turned out to be!
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2021
• The Princess is at once fodder for royal spectators—and a searing indictment of the role the public and the press played in her death.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 13 Aug. 2022
• The searing neon hues were a nod to some of Galliano’s ultra-bright past collections.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2021
• Soldiers are stationed at gas stations to calm customers, who line up for hours in the searing heat to fill their tanks.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
• The most common methods are sautéing, searing, oven-baking and grilling.
  — Angela Watson, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2021
• The track opens with a searing Master of Reality-style guitar riff, paired with a video of the New York trio caked in mud.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2024
• Many of their messages were soaring and searing and eloquent.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2020
• The superb Olympic win over Alcaraz was an outlier, a searing moment of willpower that sucked up all his strength and joy.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• Some even seek out white-hot foods, excited to challenge their digestion to the most searing peppers on the planet.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024