Use "singe" in a sentence
singe example sentences
singe
singed
singeing
singes
1. I scrabbled frantically around the mattress feeling for the rough weave of hessian, expecting the light on the wall to flare into life and singe to black my eyeballs
2. Chen felt the fire singe his skin, but he bit his lip and made not a sound
3. A singe large bed, stone but topped with a thick mattress, lay in the center, and a low stone bench was besides it
4. Wrong that she could feel her body, move, feel the ground beneath her feet, the muscles that burned with over-exertion, the burning singe from the wound above her heart
5. Twice, an arrow of flame came close enough to singe her hair and blister her arm, but she caught at the pain and swallowed it down before it could destroy her
6. singe away the feathers
7. Now shut up an' pay attention, cuz I'm gonna singe yer ears with this story
8. Circling at a bemused distance so as not to singe my wings, I knew it in my bones even then
9. Pedro kept telling her to back off, afraid she'd singe herself, and she played dumb and edged closer again
10. There was a singe mark on the wall near the door
11. As the fire began to singe her hair, she looked
12. Raklo closed his eyes and felt the burning sting of hot tears singe his wise, weathered face
13. To see him sit there, her temper would singe!
14. Slowly, and with the utmost care, he dangled the cigarette just over the edge of the recliner, careful not to singe or burn the leather
15. In desperation, he went so close to the fire that the flames began to singe his sleeve
16. It meant nothing to Tarzan, of course, for he could not tell one language from another, so when he pointed to the word man which he had printed upon a piece of bark he learned from D'Arnot that it was pronounced HOMME, and in the same way he was taught to pronounce ape, SINGE and tree, ARBRE
17. Empty, singe and clean, and disjoint the bird
1. fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed nor were their
2. "Singed!! That and turning me over and over so I came down as quickly as I could, we'll have helicopters in the meadow before long
3. Both had gotten their clothes singed but it was better than the deadlier alternative
4. Incredible! The fire had not hurt them at all – not a hair on their heads had been singed and neither had their clothing been affected
5. Just in the last week I have walked around outside this ship---in wrinkle and out---and been hit by more space lightning than a girl should think even naturally occurs---with nothing other than a bit of singed fur
6. His ribcage had taken much of the force and had clearly caved in, broken bones jutted out through his singed and blood-soaked overalls
7. I looked and saw that my eyebrows were singed off and most of my hair was
8. I had lost hair, nothing was cut evenly, I still had remnants from my burns, my eyebrows were singed, but I assumed it would add color to their story
9. Without thinking Alex threw an arm across his face and ran through the flames, ignoring the heat that singed his hair
10. was singed, and my Lord Montacute had dropped his signet ring in the
11. But as she grasped it, she was embraced in a harsh blue flickering light that singed her fur and shook her violently from side to side
12. He looked visibly shaken, and some of his skin seemed singed as well; his great, dragon-like wings had been reduced to skinned bones and straps of leather
13. They flung their fire at me but I was strong and had drawn much water from the earth; I only singed I did not burn
14. Leave the bloodstained and singed off area where they had fought for their lives just hours earlier
15. The wound above it singed and burned and she shook with a cold that came from inside
16. She had cried so much that her eyes hurt and singed in the light now
17. was singed in patches, bloody and steaming, tears falling
18. Perry, so he had to go to the evening service with his singed coat-tail
19. The smell of singed hair from his body filled the room
20. saw these men, on whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was a hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the
21. cape was torn, and his beard was singed; evidence of a battle for
22. Her clothing was singed and black with soot
23. They filled the barnyard with the smells of pipe smoke and soil and the singed smell of too many nights spent inches from the hearth
24. burn on a bonfire outside, and burn they did with a fierce heat that singed his
25. little chunk of Katie’s hair was singed, and after she
26. They’d felt an instant of pain on their exposed skin from Zarkog’s fire before they jumped, and their eyebrows and eyelashes were singed, but none of them had been burned
27. His moustache was singed, and his tweed jacket was charred and ragged, but those amber eyes burned as keenly as usual
28. The hairs had been singed off my forearms
29. To the step of the cloud, the singed forest was falling down, trees were crackling on having rushed forward, died, at the soil
30. the smell of singed clothing was very noticeable
31. But of course she knew exactly how close she could go without being singed or even ignited by a spark
32. A brief hiss of singed skin from the hot metal was followed by the thump of two pistols as they landed on the grass verge
33. Star was riveted to the spot in terror, as the flash had also singed her hair
34. At the same time, the heat which singed his fingers reminded him
35. been only recently alight (as it was badly singed, and still smoking in places)
36. The breath from its nostrils singed his beard, until the smell of burning hair made him feel nauseous
37. A fiery burst of flames badly singed the butterfly beside him
38. She looked down and saw her pack mate on the floor looking rather singed
39. [30] There is an old fable, that the butterfly once asked the owl how she should deal with the fire, which had singed her wings; and the owl counselled her, in reply, not to behold so much as its smoke
40. A portion of the cornfield that sat next to the house had been singed and left a vacant space in the lot
41. singed the front of his brim
42. but sheetless, with the skin of his breast, shoulders and knees the same colour as a newly singed bacon hog'
43. He bent down until his nose was millimetres from a particularly singed rasher and breathed in deeply
44. The powder was followed by naked dolls, many badly singed from previous encounters with the flames
45. Alicia and the stage were enveloped in a fireball that singed the hairs on Melvin’s and Jeff’s arms as they tried to block the heat from the flame
46. Singed to the core by the racial smears, Cap’n’s already smoldering temper blew
47. Strong in the knowledge of tourist ignorance when it came to real language in Italian, he said exactly what he thought; and what he thought was so monstrous, so inappropriate to beadles and to the atmosphere of a crypt, besides being so extremely and personally rude, that it roused Ingram, who knew Italian almost better than the beadle--for his included scholarly by-ways in vituperation, strange and curious twists beyond the reach of the uneducated--to pour a sudden great burning blast of red-hot contumely down on to his head; and having done this he turned, and holding Ingeborg's hand led her up the steps again, leaving the beadle at the bottom, solitary, shrivelled, and singed
48. With her singed hair, chapped, red skin, and the swollen lips, she looked like someone else
49. was bare save for a patch of singed hair down the middle, and his
50. “You’ve singed yourself
1. One of them, in an insane rush towards Lady Isabol, got a lucky hit on Jackson, flaming his left arm and leg, and singeing Lady Isabol on her left side
2. He felt a wave of heat at his back, singeing his cape
3. Lucy laughed gleefully and jabbed at Chris once again, this time singeing his HEPO
4. Ilmal’s fingers soothed the singeing burn
5. He removed his hand again and the singeing burn was now only a light, distant pain
6. earlier but this was singeing his nostrils
7. The Soul Beast did not flinch as the dagger pierced its tough skin and more fire pulsed from the resultant wounds, but unlike Sorus, the flames fell harmlessly around her, without so much as singeing a single strand of hair
8. The wrenching screams of his singeing torture
9. that would bear a singeing sting unto the exposed flesh of mortal men
10. and their servant would seek shelter from the singeing rain
11. screaming in dreadful pain at the singeing fury of the his incessant,
12. He burned his face, singeing off most of his facial hair and set light to his clothing
13. Thick, oily smoke from tobacco, sage, and a few traditional herbs fills my mouth, singeing it slightly
14. blow out his candles, singeing both eyebrows and his hair
15. They felt the unbearable heat of the explosion burning their skin and singeing their hair
16. not even singeing most of the remaining paper
17. Another blaster bolt deflected off Bael's durasteel chest plate, spinning the man around and singeing his cheek with the heat of the ricochet blast
18. In the morning Don Pedro was singeing a pig he"d killed to
19. to prevent singeing the rest of the hackle
20. And with it I turned up my collar and set off along the road, journeying by foot to kill time, to feel the city in all its ugliness, the black jugular of the city, with its barren river awash in trash, with animal carcasses and factory waste, slakes of grey froth lapping the bank walls, stagnant and aimless, no sign of a current, on by derelict building sites, by pavements torn up and abandoned, through sheet metal tunnels, the rain coming down harder, banging on the roof, streaming through cracks and then down the rusting panels, along past metal railings, past locked up gardens sold off and privatised, and all the time the cars and wagons screaming along, an endless stream, trails of blue exhaust smoke swirling, the air singeing, on and on, head to the path, barely glimpsing Great Peter setting off for the West, seeing nothing at all until turning up at Kropotkinskaya and finally looking up to the statue there of Engels
21. Singeing his pate against the burning zone,
22. The soldier, no less startled, up with his rifle and pulls the trigger, deafening and singeing the engineer, but in his flurry missing him completely
23. The heat seemed to be singeing every hair on his head, his garments stank of smoke, and perspiration greased his face with a skim of ash and soot
24. Then amid the contextless barrage of information the sense of the roach singeing his fingers awakens him to the fact that he is alone
25. Flirtation, after all, was not necessarily a singeing process
26. Every time she breathed in, she could feel the sauna’s heat singeing the inside of her lungs
27. Why love the boy in a March field with his kite braving the sky? Because our fingers burn with the hot string singeing our hands
28. The powder did not fire properly, but I succeeded in singeing myself sufficiently to avert all suspicion of my pranks
29. —, —, singeing, in the manufacture of, xxiii, 217
1. A moment later the wizard was standing over him, shouting, "Tell it that if it singes me I'll let the sword go
