Example Sentences

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Page views on burns and scalds and how to treat them increased by 50% compared to the week before Christmas to 2,748 from 1,782.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2024

Sy Baumgartner, a 70-year-old professor of philosophy at Princeton, scalds his hand at the stove.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023

One twin falls down the crumbling stairs of her Calcutta house and breaks her ankle; the other scalds her thigh on a tipped cup of coffee in a European station.

From The New Yorker • May 2, 2016

While scalds and falls on tile can inflict serious harm in the bathroom, modern kitchen appliances and gadgets offer many more opportunities for injury.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2013

The day in and day out of needle pricks, scalds, and raw-skinned hands from cooking and scrubbing was wearing on me.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu