Sentence examples for having been singed from inspiring English sources

Having been singed by complex securities like Wall Street's C.D.O.-squareds and the like, investors are not so easy to fool these days.

It might have been singed and a little burnt but that didn't stop me.

A strip of yellow police tape surrounded the boarded-up brick building that had been singed by fire.

Another delicacy, beef tartare, is manhandled onto a pita that has been singed nearly to a crisp, mimicking a pizza ($12).

Contemporaries were wary of her sharp pen: George Colman, a fellow playwright, complained that his plays had been "singed, in passing the fiery ordeal of feminine fingers".

Republicans on Capitol Hill, who have been singed by Democratic attacks over Medicare for years, said they were hopeful that Mr. Bush's involvement could yield a deal this year but were wary of what would happen if the legislation bogged down again.

G.M. has been particularly singed.

Now that self-correction is beginning to flow from powerful financial institutions that have been badly singed by the torrent of scandals -- from WorldCom to Tyco, from Enron to Adelphia.

The villages under his protection have barely been singed, which is one reason he inspires such loyalty.

We have been treating her singed feet and she is doing well.

Robert Oppenheimer remains, more than ever, one of those people who, in Stephen Spender's phrase, 'leave the vivid air singed with their honor.' " Spender's word was "signed," not "singed"; but what could have been Hollinger's Freudian error might also be the revelation of a profound moral truth.