Now they set down their prize, a large, scorched, dented packing case.

In the orchard the fruit dropped, scorched and dried by the sun.

It is a scorched earth policy, teachers union chief Karen Lewis said.

Many road signs are barely readable, text melted onto scorched metal sheets.

He coloured; there was something in her passionate piety that scorched him.

She drew out the scorched paper and unfolded it in that light.

The soil in Spychow almost scorched me and I nearly ran mad.

A smell of scorched rags and festering wounds hung in the air.

It was low outside off stump, and he scorched it through point.

The sun heated the slate of the roof, and scorched my brain.

In a scorched patch ahead, something gleamed like water in the starlight.

But the sun seemed to withdraw from the flower it had scorched.

And Trump's scorched Earth approach could prove a hard sell with advertisers.

We prefer the scorched desert of Sodom to the garden of Eden.

The flame instantly singed off the thick fur and scorched its flesh.

Now, when she scorched her disciples' scalps, what would she think about?