Sentence examples for been singed off from inspiring English sources

Even now, on a more distant anniversary, Hersey's granular rendering gives an urgency to these stories: of a young clerk, Shoji's age, who found herself crushed beneath a pile of books; of a Methodist pastor who charged his way back into the city to help, passing victims whose eyebrows had been singed off and women with the flower patterns of kimonos burned into their skin.

They had been singed by the hot cube.

Blackened rings in their cores show the trees have been singed every 10 to 40 years.

PetroChina has been singed by a political firestorm surrounding its initial public offering in the United States.

Anyone with a checking or savings account has also been singed.

He had been singed in a media bonfire sparked by trivia and fanned into flame by culture-war-mongering.

The hair on the back of his head had been singed by explosives, leaving it shorter than on the sides.

I was singed in the blogosphere".

Some letters that Ms. Eisler leafed through were singed.

The Timberwolves, their owner and their top executive were singed.

Their fingers are still being singed by mortgage-backed securities and CDOs that continue to burn.