Timber stacks on Surrey docks were so fiercely alight that a fireboat had its paint scorched off in seconds.
They see tattoos as nothing but mistakes of youth, fated to sag, or to be scorched off with a laser beam.
Tynan is a great loss to the British theatre: his laser-beam intellect would have scorched off the stage much of the dross that has clung to it since his time.
The country's midsection has been scorched off and on since late May.
"We always name Them after celebodyiss".
Dozens of sea gulls were circling the outfield sky when a white orb, scorched off the bat of Scott Hairston, suddenly cut through their airspace and landed deep inside the left field seats.
They've been scorched off the surface of the earth by the sulphur dioxide emissions from the mine".
The Cubs started off scorching hot, slumped badly in June, but came out smoking again after the All-Star break.
If the smoke blew out to sea, that meant scorching winds off the Sahara and water like glass, ideal conditions for spear fishing and Sunfish sailing.
The hurricanes, scorching droughts and off-the-charts heat waves that plagued and shocked us last year are not going away.
