How to Use singe in a Sentence

singe

1 of 2 verb
  • But the laser singes her brain.
    — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The blooms on the same bush look burnt and singed.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
  • And with that, whoosh, our eyebrows were singed and cheeks scorched.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • There’s a lot of ways to fight back the system that seeks to singe our spirit.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, BostonGlobe.com, 2019-09-04
  • The hair on the boots were singed but the flames quickly petered out, the video shows.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • El Sayed will sometimes use a torch to singe the skin of a bird or the scales of a fish.
    — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 2019-08-23
  • Then—and only then—the lump of ravioli will start to singe and burn and smoke.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 2020-09-15
  • Spicy Buffalo sauce won't singe your tongue but adds enough bite and tang to set off the tots.
    — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 2017-10-18
  • Breath automatic singed in a tight grin.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
  • His fur was singed and bitten, his arm broken, and his mouth crawling with maggots.
    — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The hair on the boots were singed but the flames quickly petered out, a video of the incident shows.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • But the stock's heat could someday singe investors, some critics warned Thursday.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 2020-01-30
  • Remove the wings at the first joint, then take a propane torch or the burner on your stove to singe away the delicate pin feathers.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 2020-12-23
  • The hair on the toe of the woman’s boot was singed but the flames quickly petered out, prosecutors said.
    — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Moeller opened his door when a fireball engulfed the pressurized cabin, singeing the hair on their arms, legs and faces.
    — Perry Vandell, azcentral, 2018-07-04
  • The unmistakable signature of chilli thrips are blooms that look deformed, scorched, singed and burnt.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Four years earlier, in May 2021, a great blaze had swept close enough to singe the trees around us.
    — Jonathan Taplin, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Both of these drying mistakes can singe the fibers, making your once fluffy towels stiff and uncomfortable.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Both of these drying mistakes can singe the fibers, making your once fluffy towels stiff and uncomfortable.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025
  • An angry deity hurled a firebrand at the swallow, singeing away its middle tail feathers.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Thankfully, only the tag was singed, so OP put the toy in a cabinet on a the pitcher.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
  • At one point, Paul improvises a blowtorch and singes Carey’s face, leaving his peepers hairless.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
  • But for those looking to singe their mouthparts on the hottest peppers on Earth, the fiery calculus behind the Scoville scale is a bit vague.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2020-11-12
  • Anyone who lives in the Valley knows that spring is just a cruel tease anyway, a little taste of paradise before eyebrow-singeing heat is upon us.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Compared to other affordable hair dryers, this one stands out for its heat settings that won’t singe hair — the temps stays at comfortable-yet-effective levels to dry and set curls.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • For instance, the team recently used the structure before a Pearl Jam concert to keep risers on the field from heating up in the sun and singeing the grass.
    — Daniel Beekman, The Seattle Times, 2018-08-28
  • Five digital heat settings make temperature adjustment simple, and the ceramic plates are gentle enough to use on any hair type without singeing.
    — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 18 June 2026
  • Speaking of burnout, that was the ultimate destination for the generation that came before, singed by their naive belief that adopting a neo-Stakhanovite approach to work and careers would pay off.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Another turnover singed the Kings just 58 seconds later when Alex Laferriere couldn’t handle Clarke’s pass in the corner of the defensive zone.
    — Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Throughout the episode, the mystery of each unexplained incident occurred, including falling off a table while singing karaoke, getting his jacket singed by Barney for repeatedly calling Robin and meeting Trudy (Danica McKellar) while drunk in the women’s restroom.
    — Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025

singe

2 of 2 noun
  • Cripps would provide child care while the singe mother(s) would go to work.
    — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • There's a funky lyric video to accompany the singe's release.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2018
  • That cat that avoids even cold stoves after an unexpected singe has nothing on wine drinkers.
    — Eric Asimov Florence Fabricant Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 28 July 2016
  • The broiler speeds along the cooking process, with just the right amount of singe on the cauliflower and melt on the halloumi.
    — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Apart from the all-wheel-drive dual-motor setup, the singe-motor variants aren't expected to pack much of a punch.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Brokaw also grows a lot of citrus and was surprised to discover his citrus groves survived the fire without a singe.
    — Christian Reynoso, SFChronicle.com, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Behind him, Stuart felt the singe of electrical current in the water.
    — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • An initial blast singes the material to create amorphous carbon, or soot.
    — Prachi Patel, Scientific American, 16 May 2018
  • In one brilliant panel a tendril from the Torch’s fiery wake singes off Hiccup’s Hitler moustache.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Iweala writes beautifully about DC (his hometown), and the Nigeria set piece sings and singes.
    — Anthony Domestico, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • These were both devastating blows since the public saw them each as the face and voice of the groups, even though there were other very talented singes and songwriters in the bands.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2026
  • There are few moments in Black womanhood more intimate, and there is no greater metaphor for the danger of vulnerability than smelling the singe of your own hair while another woman’s cold fingers graze your neck.
    — Morgan Parker, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • And on Monday, the European Union proposed new rules to reduce litter in the oceans, including a ban on singe-use plastic items, including cutlery, plates, straws and drink stirrers.
    — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 31 May 2018

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