Sentence examples for scorched paper from inspiring English sources

One evening it became apparent that my grunts, umms, ah-has etc had not been placed appropriately in the conversation when I smelt scorched paper and the Guardian suddenly erupted in flames in my hands.

Talking backstage about a "feeling for nature," the designer focused on layers of fabric peeling away like scorched paper; slender skirts with the pockets yanked out, leaving gaping holes; or gauzy sheer tops where the breast coverings were deliberately misplaced.

Mrs. Snyder's lyrical script had blurred into the scorched paper.

As one reads of scorched paper travelling for miles, and of the dead "cremated where they fell," and of the conspiracy theories, government investigations, and reformed building codes that followed the fire, Pepys's contemporaries may, for a moment, feel like one's own.

I got my last haircut in Kabul, but Sept. 11 found me standing on John Street in lower Manhattan with about 20 volunteer rescue workers, amid masses of scorched paper and debris, watching fires burn near where the World Trade Center used to be.

I surveyed my work and saw that I'd scorched the paper, so there was a yellowy crust on the shirt.

And Deborah Gottheil Nehmad used a hot stamp to pierce and scorch the paper in the untitled drawing she sent Mr. Kramarsky as a birthday card when he turned 80.

Handcrafted boxes were strewn about the floor alongside charred papers and scorched antique leather bindings.

Iron slowly without scorching the transfer paper.

To activate the lemon juice ink, heat the paper gently, being careful not to scorch or burn the paper.

Done in paper, acrylic and PVA glue, all of it scorched on cellotex, it is only 31.6 centimeters, or 13 inches, long.