Example Sentences

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“I think people think that a little extra sun will help their plants, but it will scald them because they are only used to being in a protected space,” Venice says.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2023

I am sure you will scald yourself, or swamp the house.

From The Carroll Girls by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

If water be made as hot as it can be made, and if chocolate be made as hot as it can be made, the chocolate will scald you the most.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

And you and I will scald the wooden butter things and get everything ready.

From Understood Betsy by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Care must be taken not to put the yeast in when the dough is hot, as it will scald it, and prevents its rising.

From The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous