Sentence examples for scorched from inspiring English sources

Another victim who suffered a similar memory lapse was repeatedly scorched with a cigarette lighter.

Countless flags, Rayo's red thunderbolt scorched across them.

Failing that, a couple of rashers of back bacon will work, as will, in a different way – its shards offering a crunchy textural variation – stiff bookmarks of stridently scorched streaky.

Then, some of the worst wildfires in decades scorched 7m acres and destroyed hundreds of houses in nine western states.

Lorries rolled through factory gates en route to seaports in and around nearby Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's business capital.Yet there are still broken windows and scorched walls to be seen on a few factories.

Scorched but safe, he refused to discuss the event with the police and soon left Las Vegas for California and then Florida.

Consider yesterday's leaked warning from the Bank of England governor: Mervyn King is now reportedly telling City analysts that whoever wins next Thursday's election will have to unleash a scorched-earth policy of tax rises and spending cuts that they will be out of power for a generation.

Scorched-earth offensives starved them off their land: since hunting them down was too time-consuming, one white soldier wrote, "It was therefore decided that the best policy was to destroy their huts and stores, with a view of starving them out".

The army's response was a scorched-earth campaign that drove more than 1m Kurdish villagers out of their homes.

That will necessitate also the return of hundreds of thousands of Kurds expelled from their villages by the army during its scorched-earth campaign against the PKK.Mr Erdogan's call to put right past mistakes will ring hollow unless the state compensates the Kurds for their losses.

Others suspect the closure may have been in advance of a renewed, scorched-earth, attack on the LRA.