Example Sentences

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The urgent search for victims of the wildfires in Maui this week has evoked painful memories of dozens of other fatal blazes that have seared the American landscape, especially in the West.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2023

But the images from this town an hour’s drive from Kyiv have seared themselves into global consciousness like no other.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2022

Already, more than 5,000 fires have seared through more than 140,000 acres of the state’s parched, sun-baked vegetation, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2021

Now, it doesn’t mean that this 30-year-old memory that I have seared in my mind is false.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2018

I thought, 'I have sorely wounded her whom I love, and with my own words I have seared that wound as with white heat of iron.

From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary