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Example sentences for "scorching"

Lexicographically close words:
scorbutick; scorch; scorched; scorcher; scorches; scordar; scordium; score; scoreboard; scored
  1. Give air sufficiently early in the morning, to prevent the sun scorching the foliage.

  2. We would advise shading only when there is a fear of scorching from the usual sudden sunbursts of April weather.

  3. They delight in a steady, moist heat; to be shaded in the middle of hot days, to prevent the sun from scorching the foliage; and never to be watered overhead.

  4. As the soft-wooded stove plants will now be making rapid growth, the free admission of light is necessary to prevent them from drawing; using shade only during scorching sunshine.

  5. Perhaps few men nowadays could bear the scorching heat of iron plates such as Myles wore, from which the body was only protected by a leathern jacket and hose.

  6. He huddled there many minutes, praying, the scorching pressure of the bedside growing more painful.

  7. When he awoke in the morning with a headache and surveyed his unchangeably dingy room he realized slowly, after smothering his head in the pillow to shut off the light from his scorching eyeballs, that Dr.

  8. She seized a stable-fork and assaulted one miserable victim, who lay groaning and writhing in the agony of his wounds, aggravated by the scorching beams of the sun.

  9. Seated on our odoriferous couch, beneath the shade of a single umbrella, to protect our whole party from the scorching sun, we glided wearily down the stream, through that long, tedious day.

  10. The blind and the seeing shall not be held equal; neither darkness and light; nor the cool shade and the scorching wind: neither shall the living and the dead be held equal.

  11. Virtue, like the rays of the sun, shines over the whole habitable globe, enlivens the moral, as that the material world, and exerts its benign influences from the scorching equinox to the frozen poles.

  12. We feel its force; all communities are bound together by its magnetic influence; and without it the nations of Barbary would be covered with devastation, and no more inhabited than the scorching sands of its inhospitable deserts.

  13. In the full glare of the scorching sun, Parkersburg looks harsh and dry.

  14. No season is enemy to me but the parching heat of a scorching sun; for the umbrellas made use of in Italy, ever since the time of the ancient Romans, more burden a man's arm than they relieve his head.

  15. O mighty one, thou wilt not smite me through With scorching wrath, because my spirit stands Bewildered in thy circling mysteries!

  16. The painful shock of this fall rushed through their veins like strange blood, hissing as it seemed, and full of scorching sparks.

  17. The Shade was free to do this; he could wander through the zones of Hell icy, fetid, or scorching without enduring their pangs; he glided into that vastness as a sunbeam makes its way into the deepest dark.

  18. Here the Kurds took from them everything they had, so that for five days the whole convoy marched completely naked under the scorching sun.

  19. John nervously hurried his nephew up to bed beyond the scorching of Laurence's rekindled flames of belief.

  20. Do not let us discuss my health," Mrs. Hamilton went on scorching her eyebrows in the aureole of martyrdom she wore.

  21. Many of them spoke with excited gestures from time to time, and swore round oaths at the Sultaun’s delay; for the sun had climbed high into the heaven, and no shade was there to save them from its now scorching beams.

  22. But the long and rapid journey, the bad food, the exposure to scorching heat and chilling dew, had brought on dysentery, which had exhausted him nigh to death.

  23. To heat milk directly over the flame without scorching it is a difficult matter, and, on the other hand, boiled milk is hard to digest.

  24. Cereals cooked in this way require constant watching and stirring, and even then it is difficult to keep them from sticking to the cooking utensil and scorching or becoming pasty on account of the constant motion.

  25. Redness, blisters, destruction of the cuticle and of the subcutaneous cellular tissue, blackening of the skin, scorching of the hair, and roasting of portions of the body are met with in varying degrees.

  26. The skin in cases such as may occur from a brief contact with a hot body or water near the boiling-point shows a slight redness or scorching with no enduring mark.

  27. Burns by flame= are specially characterized by scorching of the surface.

  28. And gray old trees of hugest limb Shall wheel their circling shadows round To make the scorching sunlight dim That drinks the greenness from the ground, And drop their dead leaves on her mound.

  29. We sailed for some hours along a lava coast, streamless, rainless, verdureless, blazing under the fierce light of a tropical sun, and some time after noon anchored in the scorching bay of Kawaihae.

  30. It was a constant marvel that troops of mounted natives, male and female, could gallop on the scorching shore without being melted or shrivelled.

  31. The eloquence of Mr. Clingman, who represented North Carolina, was alternately enlivened by epigrammatic wit or envenomed by scorching reply.

  32. Nor scorching sun, nor sickly moon, Shall have his leave to smite; He shields thy head from burning noon, From blasting damps at night.

  33. So pilgrims on the scorching sand, Beneath a burning sky, Long for a cooling stream at hand, And they must drink or die.

  34. I might as well have spoken to the scorching blast that whistled into my cage, bringing with it clouds of dust, which were increased by the unfeeling boys when they saw I shrank from them.

  35. We had been marching and scouting for six weeks through scorching dust and alkali, and with untrimmed beards and begrimed attire were unrecognizable.

  36. By eight the sun was scorching our backs and great clouds of dust were rising under our horses' feet, and Laramie was left behind.

  37. We got a rest at mid-day, if rest it could be called, under that scorching sun, which I never will forget.

  38. Round and round there is a complete circle of sand and wilderness shrubs; above, a blue sky without a cloud, and a scorching sun which often made the thermometer stand at 96° in our tents.

  39. From the chiselled lips of wit Let the fire-flakes lightly flit, Scorching as the snow that fell On the damned in Dante's hell?

  40. So I say, return within to thy own conscience and thou shalt find the scorching heat of that Divine Majesty burning it up, whom thou wouldst not confess.

  41. Have such persons any beauty, any light in them, except a scorching consuming light?


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scorching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acid; acidulous; acrid; acrimonious; ardent; baking; biting; bitter; blazing; blistering; boiling; burning; calcination; canicular; caustic; combustion; corrosive; cremation; cutting; deflagration; distillation; ebullient; fanatical; feverish; fiery; fire; flaming; flushed; grilling; heated; hot; hotheaded; incineration; incisive; inflamed; keen; madcap; mordant; overheated; oxidation; passionate; penetrating; piercing; roasting; scalding; scathing; scorching; seething; sharp; sizzling; smelting; stabbing; stinging; sudorific; sultry; suttee; sweating; sweaty; sweltering; tart; torrid; trenchant; withering; zealous