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• Much of the home was gutted, and both Teslas were burned to a crisp.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021
• Slices of duck breast were placed in the center, their skin and fat rendered to a crisp.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2021
• The wings are cooked to a crisp, and marinated with a blend of chili, garlic and ginger.
  — Lizzy Rosenberg, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
• There are, unfortunately, a lot of things a torch can burn to a crisp.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
• Burnt to a crisp, Spear can barely mutter Mira's name one last time.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2022
• Despite some heroic efforts with garden hoses, the F40 burned to a crisp.
  — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2024
• An air fryer is one of the fastest, easiest and least messy way of sizzling chicken wings to a crisp.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Nov. 2021
• The next day, Viserys, all sores and onion skin, is bandaged up and put together like Darth Vader after he was burned to a crisp.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2022
• Slow cook chili or soup, bake delicious bread to a crisp, and braise meat to fall-off-the-bone tenderness using this heavyweight cocotte.
  — Kennedy Vogel, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Nov. 2020
• The intense heat of the southern sun can be harsher and burn plants to a crisp, especially if not watered on a daily basis.
  — Danielle Ernest, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2022
• The car was burned to a crisp after Cerveny had painstakingly restored the 17-foot-long two-seater to concours condition.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2024
• Whole flounder is fried to a crisp, deboned and delivered to the table with a flotilla of fresh herbs, woven rice noodles and lettuce to accompany the snowy fish.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Imported fresh from Spain, the sardines are marinated in vinegar, coriander and cumin, then dredged in spiced flour and fried to a crisp, with sour orange and onions.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• And yet, as a giant nuclear reactor, the sun insists on bombarding us with energy that, left unchecked, could burn all of us to a crisp.
  — Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• Responders battled flames licking dozens of feet into the air in the early morning hours as the structure, which also housed a Denny's restaurant, burnt to a crisp.
  — Dan Carson, Chron, 1 Dec. 2022
• Similar to a crisp with baked fruit and a crumbly topping, a crunch sandwiches a layer of jammy fruit between two buttery layers.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 2 July 2023
• Instead, the likes of Jimmie Allen and Arooj Aftab looked with confusion beyond the velvet rope to a packed pool of bachelorette and birthday revelers all burning to a crisp in the barely shaded grotto.
  — Shirley Halperin, Variety, 4 Apr. 2022
• Laughing, always laughing—at the dickey birds hopping in the tree branches, at the urchin who was burned to a crisp by an angry mob, at the slandering neighbor woman who got turned into a neighing donkey.
  — Okwiri Oduor, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
• Laughing, always laughing—at the dickey birds hopping in the tree branches, at the urchin who was burned to a crisp by an angry mob, at the slandering neighbor woman who got turned into a neighing donkey.
  — Okwiri Oduor, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• Abnormally high levels of snow and rain in spring and summer had nurtured abundant 4-foot grasses that baked to a crisp during a historically dry fall.
  — Jennifer Oldham, ProPublica, 27 Dec. 2022
• Other scientists found that the gases also deplete the ozone layer, the very thing protecting all life on Earth from being sizzled to a crisp by unmitigated solar radiation.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2024
• The film concludes with especially horrific video of the aftermath of the massacre at the Israeli music festival Supernova — where Hamas executed at least 260 people — with shot after shot of bloodied corpses, others burnt to a crisp.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024