scorching
adjective
burning; very hot.
scorchingly
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a word derived from
scorching.
Example Sentences
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In Spain and neighbouring Portugal, people swarmed beaches in giant crowds, braved the streets clutching hand-held fans or used umbrellas to shield themselves from the sun as the weekend turned scorchingly hot.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
My method was always bringing the steak to room temperature, salting it heavily, then cooking it in a cast-iron pan that was scorchingly hot before basting with butter, garlic thyme and rosemary.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2024
In her scorchingly candid memoir, Blakinger writes, “All the futility, the small cruelties, the refusal to see us as fully human — it was not a flaw in the system. It was the system.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
It has been scorchingly hot this spring in India, a large wheat exporter, while drought has hurt the crops in the southern Great Plains of the United States and in East Africa.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2022
When the afternoon sun grows scorchingly hot the grinning attendant proves himself for once useful, by showing us that we can pull up sun-shutters with wooden slats outside the glass ones.
From Round the Wonderful World by A. S. (Archibald Stevenson) Forrest
