My men singed a King's beard, and yours havesinged a Kaiser's moustache.
There was a little commotion, when Mr. Bigglethorpe walked in, and received the sympathetic expressions of the company over his singed face and scorched hands.
The fisherman was badly burnt, hair, beard and eyelashes almost singed off; but still he thought of rescue.
On the scorched grass lay a singed red flag and tattered pendant.
He awoke with a start and a sacre, clapping his hand to his singed head.
The man who had singed the Pope's beard and chucked cardinals under the chin was growing old, and the most daring of the others had no mind to fight with foes whose weapons were not of this world.
He has sacked St. Peter's and singed the Pope's beard with a holy candle!
The intestines, cleaned with the fingers, made food when roasted on the fire, and pieces of hide, singed and roasted, helped to sustain life.
Put them into a pot with a pound of ham cut into pieces, and eight large calves'-feet (two sets) that have been singed and scraped but not skinned.
I've been speculating in railroad stock, and singed my fingers.
There was a kettle singing on the stove, and blowing off a happier steam than any engine ever blew on that railroad whose unmarketable stock had singed Dr.
It then became the bruised and singed apprentice's privilege to pay for bread and cheese and drink.
When his clothes--the last he was to wear as an apprentice--had been singed in the barrel out of all further use, he would be dragged out and tossed in the air by about a dozen of the strongest men.
This is accomplished by passing the cloth, stretched out at full width, very rapidly over heated plates, or through gas flames, so that the fine hairs or fuzz are singed off, but the fabric itself has not had time to take fire.
Both sides may be singed and the goods may be passed more than once through the flame.
I with this bandage across my brow, you with your hair cropped close, and your eyebrows all singed off; you can't think how funny you look!
He saw one great lynx, his fur so singed that he looked hardly half his usual size, spring far out into the water with a screech, and never rise again.
Working over toward his right, he came at last, footsore and singed and choked with thirst, to the first of the lower pastures, which had proved too wide for the flames to cross.
There's been time enough since the man Wynne's disappearance to cover up all those singed ends in a new growth.
There was a hole singed in the corner of his black gown, which Eugene pointed out with great awe to Aurelia as they walked behind him.
One legend, current amongst Catholic peoples, has it that "the robin was commissioned by the Deity to carry a drop of water to the souls of unbaptized infants in hell, and its breast was singed in piercing the flames.
Placed by the other they were twin tresses, except that the last was slightly singed by fire.
The horses had been somewhat singed about the legs, but were not disabled.
He rolled the rat over once or twice, and took it up and brushed and blew off the singed hair.
Before the fire was put out, poor Boone's eyelashes and whiskers were singed off; little hair was left on his head, and that little was short and frizzled.
I sha'n't mind if I look like a singed pony, or a convict; Rex is sure to call me both.
There are some wings in Strelsau singed at that candle.
One side of your curly wig is singed right off, and the other's fairly long.
Roberts angrily; and he raised his fingers to the singed spots involuntarily, and then snatched them down again, enraged by the smile which was beginning to pucker up his companion's face.
Not a hair was singed upon him, Not a lock was even tangled.
You turn up your nose at the French for liking frogs; and they think us ten times worse with our singed sheep's head, oat cakes, and haggis.
The scorching flames climb round on every side; Then the singed members they with skill divide; On these, in rolls of fat involved with art, The choicest morsels lay from every part.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "singed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ashen; blistered; consumed; parched; scorched; seared; sunburned
