Sentence examples for searing from inspiring English sources

The word 'searing' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as an adjective to describe something of intense heat, or to describe something that is causing great emotional pain or distress. Example: "Sara felt a searing pain in her arm after the accident."

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searing

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Present participle of sear

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Searing meat over a high heat will caramelise the outside, adding an injection of savoury, umami goodness to the finished dish; if you just push it round a warm pan, it'll end up tasting as beige as it looks.

The decision to award Qatar the 2022 tournament in December 2010 was hugely controversial, prompting an avalanche of allegations about the way it won the bid and concerns about the searing heat in which it would be played and the treatment of migrant workers building the infrastructure underpinning it.

You can get some idea of what to expect from the 55-minute "brilliant, searing and very funny exposé" by seeing the trailer here.

At the end of the long day's walk under the searing Moroccan sun, across endless expanses of sand, the Berbers slowed their camel and stopped.

Searing heat in the summer gives way to heavy rain in winter, all the better for a body to decompose.

Then came a burst of searing pain and a high-pitched wailing from his nine-months-pregnant wife.

Mrs Fantlova's account of life in Auschwitz is as searing as any, for its descriptions of the "showers"; the lashing with whips; hunger, rations and imagined feasts – and the chimneys, forever smoking.

A searing examination of the ravages of mental illness and the limitations of 1950s American society, The Bell Jar tells the story of college student Esther Greenwood, and the enclosing bell jar of her depression.

That remains true.Mr Sinn would not take much comfort from Yannis Palaiologos's searing account of Greece's nightmare of the past five years.

Praised at first as a model offset, it reportedly struggled to keep its pools properly maintained in searing temperatures and eventually went bust.Moreover, the academic literature on offsets suggests that the promised benefits are elusive.

Something audacious is required to break the deadlock; on January 6th George Osborne suggested what it might be.At a car-parts factory outside Birmingham, the Tory chancellor of the exchequer launched a searing attack on his opponents, masquerading as a cautionary speech on the economy.

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