How to Use scorch in a Sentence

scorch

1 of 2 verb
  • Or scorched, when a truth slips out too fast.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The surest sign is when the edges of its leaves scorch.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Direct light can scorch the leaves.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Too much direct sun can cause the leaves to scorch.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 8 May 2026
  • Avoid direct light, which can scorch the leaves.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Trees almost look like they have been scorched by fire.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Trees almost look like they have been scorched by fire.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Is burnout scorching your dreams?
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Roofs have been torn off, walls scorched and windows blown out.
    — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • And with that, whoosh, our eyebrows were singed and cheeks scorched.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • And, yes, Jung is scorching balls out of the gate.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • My throat was scorched, my tongue was swollen — and the acid would not stop coming.
    — Jack Korngold, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Too much will burn tender roots and can scorch foliage.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • But a scorching rinse may be making your face even more parched.
    — Jessica Cruel, SELF, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Too much sun can cause their leaves to fade or scorch, so avoid strong, direct light.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Give them too much sun, and those flowers end up scorching.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Too much hot afternoon sun can stress them out and scorch the leaves.
    — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 29 June 2026
  • Bryce Haper scorched a line drive off Burns with two outs in the sixth.
    — CBS News, 20 May 2026
  • The homes and yards right next to that first dirt road, where the cars were trapped, are now scorched black.
    — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • If a strip feels warm to the touch or shows signs of scorching, replace it.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 8 May 2026
  • Direct sunlight can scorch their leaves.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Direct sunlight can scorch their leaves.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Lay a clear plastic tarp over mowed, wet grass and the sun will scorch the grass away in about four weeks.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The 3-inch brim protects your ears and nose from getting scorched by the sun.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The first is that under watering can scorch or burn the leaves.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Phoenix's Jalen Green was scorching hot in the two play-in games.
    — ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • As of Thursday morning, eight acres of land had been scorched by it.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Because butter can burn, mayo can help keep the bread from scorching.
    — Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Buildings are left scorched with debris strewn across the road in the kibbutz.
    — Richard Engel, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Most tourists know Texas summers are scorching.
    — Julia James, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026

scorch

2 of 2 noun
  • There are scorch marks on the pavement where a city truck was burned.
    — Bill Glauber, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2020
  • But black scorch marks above the grate revealed fires that had once burned in it.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The grease left a scorch mark on the brick below the drive-thru window.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Thousands of trees, burned and chairlifts still bear scorch marks from the blaze.
    — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The saucepan also performed well in our scorch test — barely any sauce stuck to the bottom of it.
    — Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping, 20 May 2022
  • The scorch marks across the landscape are visible from satellites.
    — Washington Post, 8 June 2019
  • All of them are guaranteed to slide you into a cool comfort zone that soothes the scorch of the hottest days.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 23 July 2021
  • Nothing takes the edge off summer scorch as effectively as a few cold beers.
    — Kara Martinez Bachman, NOLA.com, 31 May 2017
  • The fire at the Way, however, burned other bins and left scorch marks on the back wall of the church.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The most alarming part of these videos, the black scorch marks, is not actually the snow burning.
    — Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The burning of the flag left scorch marks on the front porch but there was no structural damage due to the fire, police said.
    — Hartford Courant, 18 Nov. 2022
  • As the sun rose, close-up views showed the large white and black capsule upright with hardly any scorch marks from re-entry.
    — Marcia Dunn, SFChronicle.com, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Synagogue staff also found scorch marks from recent fires set in front of the doors to the sanctuary.
    — oregonlive, 7 May 2022
  • City dwellers will have a difficult time seeing anything but the brightest scorches of light.
    — Neel V. Patel, Slate Magazine, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Folks came out in droves, not only to compete, but to cheer on competitors and sample scorch-worthy fare.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 21 July 2022
  • The inside walls, floors and appliances had been spray painted and a gun safe had scorch marks on it from a blow torch, according to court records.
    — oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2021
  • For Virginia Republicans, the blaze may be out, but the scorch marks remain.
    — Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2025
  • And dozens of rare sea turtles washed up on Sri Lanka's beaches, some with what appeared to be scorch marks on their shells.
    — Helen Regan and Chandler Thornton, CNN, 24 July 2021
  • Issa trashes her apartment, prompted by the presence of the scorch marks still left behind on her ceiling from the garbage fire in episode one.
    — Cate Young, Cosmopolitan, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Recent missile firings might leave minor scorch marks or fouling on the Lubeck’s paint job, but the ship looks pristine.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2018
  • An east-facing window is the sweet spot because the plant gets gentle morning sun without the afternoon scorch.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Chile brings an insistent thrust to every dish, sometimes a scorch and quick retreat, sometimes a steady radiance.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Both Bird and Lime seem to be wising up to the limitations of the scorch-the-earth strategy.
    — Johana Bhuiyan, Recode, 30 Aug. 2018
  • The Navy learned nukes scorch ships but to really hurt them, detonate the bombs underwater.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2021
  • Wholesale suppliers provide the wood slabs, many of them are discards from trees felled by age or storms (some tables bear scorch marks from lightning strikes).
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Examining tree rings and scorch marks, Stephens was able to construct a record of fires dating back to the sixteen-hundreds.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Photographer Rus Khasanov scorches, bleaches, freezes, and rips apart old discs.
    — Laura Mallonee, Wired, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Otherwise, its effort to light a fire under HBO Max could leave scorch marks.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2020
  • The presidential helicopter isn’t supposed to leave scorch marks on the White House lawn.
    — Fortune, 20 July 2019
  • Bourdain clearly operates with all six burners on scorch, and the result keeps the reader excited.
    — Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018

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