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
• 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
• 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
• The searing heat has forced outdoor workers like Das to change their working hours.
  — Soumya Sarkar, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2022
• 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 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
• Before Utah’s searing, mega-drought summer, came the winter storm of 2021.
  — Luke Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2021
• But in one of the movie’s most searing sequences, Jackie tries to talk Ruby out of pursuing her love of singing.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
• In the southeast of the island, the ridge coincides with a searing hot column of molten rock, known as a hot spot, which drives even more volcanic fury.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
• The searing heat, the choking smoke, the sheer ferocity of the fires and the intense activity all around is hard to process at times.
  — Eleni Giokos, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• This short, searing book is about more than statistics; it’s about the real people whose lives have been torn apart by guns.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 15 Dec. 2022
• Temperatures are forecast to reach the low to mid-80s, with a chance of rain, providing a respite from the searing heat of the previous week.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• The Tribune news story about the charges filed against Mapes led off with a searing image that inspired this column.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2021
• Musk pushed back on the author's suggestion with a searing response.
  — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 23 Apr. 2023
• After Zverev held with the court nearly half in shadow from the searing late afternoon sun, Fritz held again to force the tiebreaker.
  — Beth Harris, ajc, 16 Oct. 2021
• Five people died as a result of a searing heatwave that is currently sweeping the U.S., according to the Associated Press.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024