SCORCH in a Sentence

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47 example sentences for SCORCH, such as:

1. The hot iron scorched the tablecloth.
2. They walked all day in the scorching heat.
3. The iron was too hot and he scorched the shirt.
4. The meat will scorch if you don't lower the gas.
5. Then she could have scorched him with hot words.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCORCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scorch
 v.  burn superficially; parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; affect painfully with heat; burn
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  Then she could have scorched him with hot words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Her tongue was furred and her throat parched as if flames had scorched it and no amount of water could assuage her thirst.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  There towered the twelve oaks, as they had stood since Indian days, but with their leaves brown from fire and the branches burned and scorched.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  Scarlett's legs felt cold to the knees but rage scorched her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  Her fingers tightened about his thumb as she perceived the hot low room, the pounding of pressing-irons, the reek of scorched cloth, and Erik among giggling gnomes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  Here lounged the watch, when not otherwise employed, looking into the red heat of the fire, till their eyes felt scorched in their heads.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
7  Through thee, thy flaming self, my scorched eyes do dimly see it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
8  Edna said she did not mind a little scorched taste.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
9  When the blows scorched the back of the Huron, he would know where to find a woman to feel the smart.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
10  The youth had reached an anguish where the sobs scorched him.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  The boiled tea was very bitter, the omelet scorched, and the biscuits speckled with saleratus, but Mrs. March received her repast with thanks and laughed heartily over it after Jo was gone.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
12  Of course they did; for I felt their eyes directed like burning-glasses against my scorched skin.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  He took it from my hand, held it up, and surveyed the bed, all blackened and scorched, the sheets drenched, the carpet round swimming in water.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  I passed my finger over his eyebrows, and remarked that they were scorched, and that I would apply something which would make them grow as broad and black as ever.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  On my objecting to this retreat, he took us into another room with a dinner-table for thirty, and in the grate a scorched leaf of a copy-book under a bushel of coal-dust.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIII
Example Sentence:
1  The meat will scorch if you don't lower the gas.
2  The iron was too hot and he scorched the shirt.
3  The hot iron scorched the tablecloth.
4  He was as a dog that had been terribly scorched, and nothing would again induce him to go near the fire.
5  They walked all day in the scorching heat.
6  It was scorching and there wasn't a cloud in the sky.