Sentence examples for scorched- from inspiring English sources
Other Aboriginal people watch silently as the freezing winter wind blows off the ranges and fusses among the crumpled beer cans and scorched cooking pots.
The chilling catchphrase embodied her government's scorched earth onslaught on Britain's mining communities – and gave the green light for the entire state to treat the miners' union as outlaws.
Marine Le Pen had last week lambasted her father's strategy as "somewhere between scorched earth and political suicide".
The scene, depicted in Edward Poynter's painting, Faithful unto Death, is still legible on a scorched postcard pulled from behind the charred remains of wooden panelling in the Glasgow School of Art last week.
Although it is almost 200 miles (320km) from the fire, an emergency was declared in San Francisco, which gets a lot of its electricity from dams and power lines in the scorched area.Bob Filner resigned as mayor of San Diego after 18 women, starting with one of his senior aides and including a retired navy rear-admiral, accused him of sexual harassment.
Television pictures of scorched prisoners who had set themselves ablaze did Turkey's case no good at all in Europe.Yet Mr Ecevit's government still has a chance to put things right when it releases its National Programme for EU membership at the end of this month.
In a desperate, scorched-earth attempt to remain in power, the unionist Tories are willing to ensure the break-up of the UK, shamelessly fanning anti-Scottish resentment in England while fuelling the SNP juggernaut.
His recent visit to Shinyanga, a sun-scorched cotton and gold-mining region south of Lake Victoria, was his 11th safari since taking office.
His bossy elder sister would make an ideal tyrant for this dilapidated, sun-scorched, miserable western end of the island of Hispaniola.
There are also Southern Baptist nurses at the beach who provide cups of iced water and soothing aloe cream (no doubt with bible accompaniment) for sun-scorched tourists.In the capital city, Columbia, Southern Baptists are preparing to launch equestrian ministries to the state's many horse-lovers.
During his long subsequent confinement, more than 17 years of which were spent on Robben Island, a wind-scorched Alcatraz off the Cape coast, little was heard of Mr Mandela and nothing was seen of him.
