Dreaming of the beauty of Laieikawai, the young chief feels his heart glow with passion for this "red blossom of Puna" as the fiery volcano scorches the wind that fans across its bosom.
The wind is the carrier of the vision as it blows over the blossoming forest and scorches its wing across the flaming pit.
Its quivering touch scorches my heart, The sick old heat of the winter, The fiery heat of summer, The dripping heat of the summer season, The heat compels me to go, I must go.
Only a love that scorches and dazzles is worthy of the name.
One luminous phrase especially stands out andscorches my soul.
Then came the sudden remembrance, shrivelling her pretty dreams as the lightning scorches and withers.
I do not see the heat that scorches us, but I feel it, and know it exists.
This poison that scorches my soul like fire, That burns and burns until love is dry, And I shrivel with hate, as hot as a pyre, A corpse, while its smoke curls up to the sky?
The thunderscorches all existing objects upon which it falls.
Avoid shady seats and sleeping until dawn in the harvest season, when the sun scorches the body.
The hot light shot back from the sea scorches my cheek-- my life is burning in me.
The sun scorches man, and willing his naked state roast him alive.
A single cast of an eye this-a-way, would strip us of every rag of clothes, as surely as the lightning scorches the bush, and it might be that our very lives would be far from safe.
No fear of him; he will sleep until the sunscorches his eyelids.
Another hour, the sun is high in the heavens, and autumn though it be, the heat scorches her head through her crimson handkerchief and her thick grey hair.
The black boy singes off the feathers, slightly scorches the flesh of his game and munches it whole, secures another sheaf of darts, and goes a-shooting again.
Let the sun scorch the skin and blister it until it peels, and scorches and peels again, and scorches and peels alternately until, having no more dominion over the flesh, it tinctures the very blood and transmutes mere ruddiness to bronze.
Everything burns on me and in me; fire scorches my lips, fire scorches my brain.
Watch closely and stir frequently, as the mixturescorches easily.
Watch closely, as this scorches easily if allowed to stand a minute without stirring.
The thought of it scorches me," she cried suddenly.
It scorches me, and I can't sleep for the torture of it.
It is believed that a person, by performing austere penances, scorches the three worlds.
In what way should I behave so that this blazing prosperity that I have won and that scorches all my enemies may not desert me?
This is of a hot nature; although it is at a distance off, it scorches badly [7].
Whatever kind of passion rules you, it scorches you with the flames you need not be ashamed of, and you always indulge in an honorable, an ingenuous love.
Because the white will not absorb the heat; and, therefore, the hot sun rests on the surface of the skin, and scorches it.
Because the hot end of the poker heats the air around it, and this hot air (in its ascent) scorches the poker, and the hand which holds it.
Lightning scorches it by its own positive heat, just the same as fire would.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scorches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
