Sentence Examples

1. Scorched and sweating, hacking and coughing, but needing to escape, I faced the fire but staggered backward, using a technique developed at the age of twelve for sneaking into movie theaters by walking backward against the flow as the early show let out.
2. A few seconds later the fire flickered out and the golem still stood, scorched, but otherwise unhurt.
3. His shirt was a scorched mess, blistered skin visible on his exposed chest.
4. Scorched bricks lined the streets we plodded down as we passed smoldering crates that once held goods.
5. As the six armed snake lunged she conjured a ball of electricity that scorched its scales and sent it sprawling.
6. The combined force of the flames scorched the very stone black, their impact sending a wave of shimmering heat directly towards the both of us.
7. Feeling scorched by his touch, I nonchalantly sip champagne from my goblet to feign calmness.
8. The exterior of the bus looked bad enough, its bodywork battered and scorched by flames not long since extinguished.
9. My arms were scorched from shoulders to the tips of my fingers, the skin peeling off in blackened strips.
10. Black splotches scorched the earth where men had once stood, and the ash of grass burned off in the fighting smothered the entire scene.