Example Sentences

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While that feared acetylene torch called overexposure has singed, seared or crisped one comedian after another, Red Skelton's popularity has never really stopped growing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Simon Danz has come home again, From cruising about with his buccaneers; He has singed the beard of the King of Spain, And carried away the Dean of Jaen And sold him in Algiers.

From A Wanderer in Holland by Marshall, Herbert, R. W .S.

Mass, now I remember, I'll look whether he has singed the hangings or no.

From The Puritaine Widdow by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

If he knows what's best for himself he won't, but he will be like the foolish moth, and won't be contented till he has singed his wings.

From The Young Bank Messenger by Alger, Horatio

The fire has singed him pretty well as it is.

From The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico Or, the End of the Silver Trail by Patchin, Frank Gee