How To Use Scorching In A Sentence

This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt. Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
They are then strung from trees and dangle in the scorching sun. Times, Sunday Times
The scorching has been caused by frost. Times, Sunday Times
Under the sands and scorching sun of Arabia. Times, Sunday Times
If the weather turns dry raise the height of cut to prevent browning and scorching of the grass.

Check it every fifteen to twenty minutes, stirring and scraping the bottom of the pot to make sure the meat is not sticking or, God forbid, scorching.
Fear is an alien emotion to the prodigy, whose biggest asset is his scorching pace.
My reaction to that utterance led to an open and scorching debate.
Heat a griddle or heavy frying pan until scorchingly hot. Times, Sunday Times
It was scorching and there wasn't a cloud in the sky.
Seville is scorching in high summer.
Moreover, each vehicle had to be capable, during each patrol, of traveling some 2,000 miles over unmapped, inhospitable terrain, and scorching, shifting sands.
The hot sun was scorching, and they quickly headed inside.
In the winter the rain leaks through the seams; in the summer there is no escape from the scorching desert sun. Times, Sunday Times
It was a scorching day and there was a light south-west wind when the select group, including two direct descendants of the islanders, disembarked on the rocks at Clashymore natural harbour.
His bed and mosquito net are at one end of the scorching metal box, a desk, medicine cupboard and diagnostic equipment at the other. Times, Sunday Times
Another squad is crouching next to a bridge, sheltering from the scorching sun and waiting to launch an ambush. Times, Sunday Times
The sun was scorching his bare back and his thighs were beginning to ache from the friction of the horse's saddle-free back, but he ignored the discomforts.
Profit growth had slowed from 2004's scorching pace.
It was a scorching day and there was a light south-west wind when the select group, including two direct descendants of the islanders, disembarked on the rocks at Clashymore natural harbour.
His form is either scorching hot or freezing cold. The Sun
Huge slabs of raw meat were roasting slowly within the scorching flames.
The feet were constantly caught and entangled in the long grass, that was parched in the scorching sun; the eyes were dazzled on all sides by the glaring metallic glitter on the young reddish leaves of the trees; on all sides were the variegated blue clusters of vetch, the golden cups of bloodwort, and the half-lilac, half-yellow blossoms of the heart's-ease. A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I
I believe in young folks makin 'all they can o' theirselves," announced Martin, puffing hard at his pipe and drawing a little farther still from the fireplace, because the scorching red coals had begun to drop beneath the forestick. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
Every year, when the scorching sun divests them of water for months on end, the men turn to pimping rather than toil in the wooden fields.
Heat the griddle pan over a high heat for several mins until scorchingly hot. Times, Sunday Times
The July sun was scorching, and the driver got lost.
Another squad is crouching next to a bridge, sheltering from the scorching sun and waiting to launch an ambush. Times, Sunday Times
For a man who was known to record some of the most fiery roots music this side of the Mississippi, he was usually not featured belting out some rambunctious R & B or scorching rockabilly.
Tom Morello's insistent riffs and scorching solos were supported squarely by the rhythm section.
The Spider is a scorching drive in more ways than one. The Sun
Shining brightest in the scorching blue range of visible light, V391 Velorum boasts a surface temperature in the vicinity of 30 000 degrees Celsius. YubaNet.com
We sailed for some hours along a lava coast, streamless, rainless, verdureless, blazing under the fierce light of a tropical sun, and some time after noon anchored in the scorching bay of The Hawaiian Archipelago
That summer was bone dry and scorching hot, and thousands of people died. Times, Sunday Times
When using your BBQ as an oven, the diffuser deflects the direct heat from the burners to prevent scorching the food in the bottom of the pan.
Don't stand so near the fire-your coat is scorching!
As it was fractured before it left the bell tower and was gently lowered, it is likely the brittle metal broke in the sudden change of temperature from scorching heat to cold as the flames were doused with water.
The Spider is a scorching drive in more ways than one. The Sun
Did you ever put your fingers on something scorching hot?
The influence of anti-scorching agent CTP on blooming from bead chafer of PCR tire was experimentally investigated.
Last night we made a fire to sit by and today it is scorching hot. The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
Many Brits buying inland don't realise just how harsh winters in Spain's interior can be, or how unforgiving the scorching summer heat.
In the winter the rain leaks through the seams; in the summer there is no escape from the scorching desert sun. Times, Sunday Times
I called the bots, or what was left after scorching friction peeled half of them into atmosphere and irredeemably charred most of the other half. Everything2 New Writeups
I felt like I was walking in an endless desert, with the afternoon sun scorching my skin.
Thanks to a summer that threatens to get more scorching with each passing day, the hapless Bangalorean doesn't have any other choice.
Zubair was a wreck, a ball of frayed nerves with a stomach full of bubbling acid that had resulted in a scorching pyrosis. Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2
She held on straight for the Red Sea under a serene sky, under a sky scorching and unclouded, enveloped in a fulgor of sunshine that killed all thought, oppressed the heart, withered all impulses of strength and energy. Lord Jim
Only the dangerously contemporary will do, or the prickliest old masters, sung unaccompanied with scorching force and no safety net. Times, Sunday Times
People, from kiddies to oldies, received the recreation despite the scorching sun.
The colors are hypnotizing: the women are adorned with clothes of the deepest blues and purples and scorching reds and yellows.
A few summers ago, when I was still temping and the weather was scorching the city, causing blackouts and other horrors, I decided to take a few days for myself and not work.
It has the new world freshness of ripe melon and citrus - good for the scorching weather. The Sun
It looked scorchingly hot out there in the opening minutes of the broadcast.
The scorching heat of the Oxus plain was a complete contrast, except for the chilly nights, after the terrible glaciers of Kara Dagh. KARA KUSH
Weak arcs of scorching lightning zapped outwards, rapidly fading over the short distance.
Soldiers returning from patrols in scorching heat have to wait their turn to get a shower. Times, Sunday Times
Another squad is crouching next to a bridge, sheltering from the scorching sun and waiting to launch an ambush. Times, Sunday Times
He spoke of the long moonless night lyings-in - wait, the pestilential fens, the rivers envenomed by leaves of poison-plants, the deep snow-drifts, the scorching suns, the scorpions, and rains of grasshoppers; he also descanted on the peculiarities of the great lions of the Atlas, their way of fighting, their phenomenal vigour; and their ferocity in the mating season. Tartarin of Tarascon
They walked all day in the scorching heat.
Normal people could only survive travel on the planet during dusk and dawn, when the temperature was neither freezing nor scorching.
Crete looked back up to Stu's face and picked up his scorching hot mug of cocoa.
The soles of their feet are covered with fur which cushions them on hard ground and insulates them from the scorching heat of hot desert sands.
That summer was bone dry and scorching hot, and thousands of people died. Times, Sunday Times
But it landed in scrub parched by scorching summer temperatures - triggering a host of fires that joined to form one big blaze. The Sun
Six years ago this summer, my son was christened on a scorchingly hot day. Times, Sunday Times
The scorching sun beat down, and live gospel music blared from the makeshift stage. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: November 27, 2009
Men in khaki did not complain about the scorching sun or the mirthful crowd.
Men in khaki did not complain about the scorching sun or the mirthful crowd.
I presented myself to another Pathan, very splendid in steel back-and-breast and long-tail puggaree, who commanded the gate guard, and sat sweating in the scorching sun while he sent off a messenger for the chamberlain. Fiancée
Scorching comments fill the mailbag this month, most of them regarding stories that ran in our July issue.
His form is either scorching hot or freezing cold. The Sun
This year's scorching summer led to a record high in the average ocean surface temperature around Japan in August, severely reducing hauls of Pacific sauries. Kentucky.com: Homepage
These crumply-nosed, curly-horned, taupe-colored, kinky-haired merinos are the toughest of New Zealand's 40 million sheep, enduring high elevation, scorching summers, and brutal winters.
Under the sands and scorching sun of Arabia. Times, Sunday Times
So far, though, the car at least looks scorchingly quick. Times, Sunday Times
“Scared, hunh?” the nigga asked, his hot breath scorching the fine hairs on my neck. Show Stoppah
The tale begins quietly enough on a long-ago summer's day of stifling heat and scorching sunshine.
Vultures and hawks circled in the flat blue skies above; clouds flecked and passed as ships of ghostly steam; the sun was hot but not scorching.
The scorching summer heat, heavy downpours, or chilly winters cannot dampen their spirits.
You had a magic haircut achieved without scissors and set off the smoke-alarm by scorching the toast.
It has set a scorching pace in a bid to remain York's greenest company.
But of course he says this, and a great deal more, far more wittily and scorchingly every time he goes into a recording studio.
Hundreds of demonstrators braced the scorching sun to trek the murram road up to the district headquarters, where Moyo sub-county residents joined them. AllAfrica News: Latest
But to me (just as an aroma, unpleasant perhaps in itself, of naphthaline and flowering grasses would have thrilled me by giving me back the blue purity of the sea on the day of my arrival at Balbec), this smell of petrol which, with the smoke from the exhaust of the car, had so often melted into the pale azure, on those scorching days when I used to drive from The Captive
Under the scorching sun, she looked half-starved, exhausted.
The scorching weather in the UK prompted the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to urge employers to adopt a more relaxed approach to office attire.
If we garden because the climate is good, the Persians gardened because the climate was dreadful: freezing winters, scorching summers, dust storms, earthquakes.
Hell, I'm more than willing to pass the horn around so you can all have a blow, and no, that's not oral herpes I've got, but simply blistering from the scorching sun as I made my way home from the desert city of Shem. Archive 2010-03-01
She was one of those astonishing Victorian women who conquered mountains and crossed scorching deserts corseted in whalebone and steel, sporting smart designer tweeds and improbable hats.
Going out one morning I met unexpectedly the scorching breath of the kamsin wind, and fearing that I should faint under the horrible sensations which it caused, I returned to my rooms. Eothen
Around me, frustrated passengers began to speculate about the city overheating in scorching temperatures.
Frandsen skims the angle with a scorching right footer after a determined run.
Texture holds together under scorching conditions and partially solidifies in extreme cold.
Some motorists who contacted the Daily Dispatch said they had to wait up to an hour in the scorching heat, as the queue of vehicles crawled through the town.
Fortunately the day was overcast, so we didn't have a scorching sun in which to carry around tiny twins and all their essential equipment, apparatuses, impedimenta, equipage and whatnot.
We sailed for some hours along a lava coast, streamless, rainless, verdureless, blazing under the fierce light of a tropical sun, and some time after noon anchored in the scorching bay of Kawaihae. The Hawaiian Archipelago
No English daily is expanding at the scorching pace of these.
The gruelling race is held over five days, over rough terrain in scorching heat. The Sun
His blades, still blazing with a powerful energy, cut through Strife's scorching aura without the slightest resistance.
I felt my heart plummet to the earth's core and sink into the scorching ball of fiery lava with an ominous plonking noise.
The classic Indian meal is a madcap, group event, with crispy bhajis to nibble before your tandoori arrives, and pillows of basmati rice to leaven the scorching lamb vindaloo when it gets too hot.
They burned like acid, scorching a path wherever they brushed her pale skin.
There was no wind, and the flames rose straight up, scorching the cocoanut-leaves, but unharming other houses within twenty-five feet. Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
Another squad is crouching next to a bridge, sheltering from the scorching sun and waiting to launch an ambush. Times, Sunday Times
As yet another scorching summer has drawn to a close in Mumbai, one hears the haunting cry of the pied crested cuckoo.
By then I had broken out into more than a little sweat, from the scorching sun glaring down on my back.
At about 7 or 8 a.m. the previously prepared produce, with select innards, is placed on the scorching stones in an oversized cast aluminum casserole with water, over which is placed an iron grate sufficiently forged to hold the weight of the quartered meat, including head and organs … either plain, or enchilada. BBQ Goat In Oaxaca: The Pomp, Ceremony And Tradition
Don't stand so near the fire-your coat is scorching!
The scorching backfoot cover-drive and the pick-up stroke on the on-side have fetched him runs in plenty.
Yorkshire's tourist attractions experienced mixed fortunes last year as the country baked in the scorching summer weather.
it was scorching hot
They had their mutthering ivies and their murdhering idies and their mouldhering iries in that muskat grove but there’ll be bright plinnyflowers in Calo-mella’s cool bowers when the magpyre’s babble towers scorching and screeching from the ravenindove. Finnegans Wake
Somewhere not scorchingly hot or halfway round the world would be good. Times, Sunday Times
Soldiers returning from patrols in scorching heat have to wait their turn to get a shower. Times, Sunday Times
The gruelling race is held over five days, over rough terrain in scorching heat. The Sun
No butter or oil, no basting, just scorching heat. Times, Sunday Times
Wild goats and donkeys replace the cars on sleepy, scorching roads. Times, Sunday Times
The bright suns rays touched her sneakers, scorching them with fiery heat.
Having been used to arid, scorching heat, the brisk weather was both welcome and refreshing, if not a bit cold.
Summer pours scorching sunlight into the valleys.
She uses a lathe, turning wood to create highly contemporary forms, then adding textural interest by sandblasting, bleaching or scorching. Times, Sunday Times
Jump! he could hear Skipper shouting loudly; also he heard the high note of the mainsheet screaming across the sheaves as Van Horn, bending braces in the dark, was swiftly slacking the sheet through his scorching palms with a single turn on the cleat. CHAPTER V
The product possess the best scorching quality of sulfonamide type accelerators.
The central hut, which represented the pavilion of the leader, was distinguished by his swallow-tailed pennon, placed on the point of a spear, from which its long folds dropped motionless to the ground, as if sickening under the scorching rays of the Asiatic sun. The Talisman
The scorching heat that roasted much of the country is over and the rains are tipping down. Times, Sunday Times
That summer was bone dry and scorching hot, and thousands of people died. Times, Sunday Times
A posse of policemen should be appointed to check the scorching pace as well as competition between private buses.
He swung himself off the lounger with as much grace as he could muster and stepped gingerly on to the scorching bricks. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Well, seething, sizzling and scorching, soaring temperatures are causing another day of misery across much of the country.
scorching heat
I'm in hot water, so scorching and so deep that some relatives and friends are questioning my sanity.
My foolish logic told me that, when it is scorching outside, layers of admittedly dead skin were offering protection. Times, Sunday Times
The air he inhaled transformed into a hellish inferno, scorching his lungs.
I did the foamy butter thing on a granite slab heated up to over 500 degrees on our electric grill… the results were ok, sorta, but nothing close to the taste and texture of a “hot-tubbed” steak tossed onto a scorching hot big green egg… Sous Vide Supreme | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
The thermometer ranges from below zero in the winter to above 100 on torrid summer days when scorching winds sandblast the canyons.
It's not foamy, which is kinda cool, and you put a thin layer on your face and let it sit for 30 seconds, generating a sensation toeing the line between tingling and scorching. Boing Boing: August 22, 2004 - August 28, 2004 Archives
Scorching temperatures and bright sunshine have also given a much needed boost to seaside resorts around Kerry, which have suffered a lot because of dull summers in recent years.
At one lantern show at Paro Dzong in Bhutan, an "accumulator" blew up scorching White's face and badly singing his eyebrow, eyelashes and moustache. Phayul Latest News
Each felt that there would be something scorching in the words that would recall the irretrievable wrong. IV. Maggie and Lucy. Book VII—The Final Rescue
Fear is an alien emotion to the 18-year-old sensation, whose biggest asset is his scorching pace.
The cockpit became scorchingly hot, and I could see the heat waves coming off the generator as it struggled to keep up with my fast firing.
Another squad is crouching next to a bridge, sheltering from the scorching sun and waiting to launch an ambush. Times, Sunday Times
Having been used to arid, scorching heat, the brisk weather was both welcome and refreshing, if not a bit cold.
It was scorching outside and there was no telling whether he had managed to fall asleep or not, and even if he did, there was no telling whether he would wake up.
Consequently all the city's contrasts, contradictions and ambiguities seem to be magnified by the scorching sun.
The scorching heat that roasted much of the country is over and the rains are tipping down. Times, Sunday Times
How I missed those days climbing up the scorching hot cement slide and playing tic-tac-toe on the sand.
Another squad is crouching next to a bridge, sheltering from the scorching sun and waiting to launch an ambush. Times, Sunday Times
The band were in top form as they flew through the night's scorching 65-minute, 11-song set.
She was one of those astonishing Victorian women who conquered mountains and crossed scorching deserts corseted in whalebone and steel, sporting smart designer tweeds and improbable hats.
The feet were constantly caught and entangled in the long grass, that was parched in the scorching sun; the eyes were dazzled on all sides by the glaring metallic glitter on the young reddish leaves of the trees; on all sides were the variegated blue clusters of vetch, the golden cups of bloodwort, and the half-lilac, half-yellow blossoms of the heart’s-ease. A Sportsman's Sketches
The first was a scorching right-foot volley that Given did well to tip over the bar.
Wild goats and donkeys replace the cars on sleepy, scorching roads. Times, Sunday Times
This keeps the spice from scorching; scorched Sichuan peppercorns have an acrid, bitter pungency which is less than salutary. Tigers & Strawberries » My Precious
It is also believed that utterance of the SO&P password by one of the uninitiate will cause drought, pestilence, scorching heat and Ice Ages. Password Protected Sites: SOAP and Trolls « Climate Audit
Ten minutes and a scorchingly confusing user interface later, we'd ordered our pizza.
Braving scorching sun, the differently abled children came in procession from Subashnagar area to the district Collectorate this afternoon.
Accept the conditions - even if it's scorching sunshine or a really steep or rocky stretch.
Back in 1948, liberals were excited when President Harry Truman took to whistle-stopping and scorching the "do nothing 80th Congress" run by Republicans. Ken Blackwell: After the Flotilla Raid, Progressives Show Their True Colors
Some ovens run hotter than others, so check the meat fairly often to prevent scorching.
It was easily pliable, but amazingly tough, withstanding hundreds of pounds of pressure and scorching heat that could have charred the flesh off of a human being.
Don't stand so near the fire-your coat is scorching!
We went for a swim to cool off from the scorching sunshine. The Sun
Several cannibinoids will isomerize in a non reducing environment below 140 degrees C (which molten butter will be - the water not only keeps the butter from scorching it also keeps temperture below boiling). Firedoglake
Would you normally wear wellies on a scorching day in August? Times, Sunday Times
By the end of the day I could feel the burn on the soles of my feet, and my skin forming a thick pumice-proof layer to protect itself from future exposure to scorching walkways.
Through that, the album reads like a journey into darkness and back to scorching sunlight.
It was a golden opportunity for him to see the living conditions of expatriate labourers who live in the camps, braving the scorching heat and adverse conditions.
The weatherman says the scorching heat is on its ways back later this week.
And then my lips, my tongue, were burning, scorching, stinging from the heat.
To escape from the scorching, sultry summers of Delhi he would take his trainees to the sand dunes of the Yamuna at Okhla, South Delhi.
As yet another scorching summer has drawn to a close in Mumbai, one hears the haunting cry of the pied crested cuckoo.
The sun was scorching; we were watching the ferry boat leaving the harbour.
Then we drank champagne in the scorching sunshine. Times, Sunday Times
Soldiers returning from patrols in scorching heat have to wait their turn to get a shower. Times, Sunday Times
And though he'd heard that reaching the 12500-foot summit would be an ordeal, he wasn't prepared for the scorching lava bombs that Erebus hurled at him.
It was the heart of the shark, and as I looked, there under my eyes, on the scorching deck where the pitch oozed from the seams, the heart pulsed with life. CHAPTER XXIII
It was scorching hot and, at some point in the afternoon when we'd all drunk a lot, some of the lads decided that it was time to cool off in the pool.
Stir occasionally for even heating and to prevent scorching.
He was dizzy with the scorching sun.
A press cloth over the fabric protects the fabric from melting or scorching and prevents the laminate from damaging the iron.
Soldiers with flame throwers came behind the bulldozers scorching the earth and burning the termites and their eggs to black cinders.
A scorching weekend was full of spins as the slick surface of "The Track Too Tough To Tame" left drivers slapping the wall in befuddlement. Denny Hamlin earns Darlington sweep with Southern 500 win
Instead, the attack crashed into the ground scorching it and sending an explosive shower of dust up into the air.
Farmers on the Continent battled against an exceptionally dry summer and scorching temperatures that seriously damaged crops.
Never had I felt this scorching flame, I to whom love had appeared only in the form of devoutest worship. Letters of Two Brides
Also expect big pompano - these are basically a crevalle with teeth, but they hit plugs and sardines and go on line scorching runs.
Keep in mind that Jamaican cuisine doesn't have to be scorching.
Then we drank champagne in the scorching sunshine. Times, Sunday Times
The stork had just procreated and was spreading its wings over the helpless little creatures in the nest to protect them from the scorching late-June sun.
And few here have either the energy or strength to walk that far in a scorching African sun.
Almost immediately, his calf swelled up, and the skin covering it grew scorching hot.
A million retina-scorching hand-drawn characters and colours zap epileptically at you as three billion zappy noises explode out of your speakers. SLACKERJACK – Dad ‘n’ Me
The scorching heat of the Oxus plain was a complete contrast, except for the chilly nights, after the terrible glaciers of Kara Dagh. KARA KUSH
Another squad is crouching next to a bridge, sheltering from the scorching sun and waiting to launch an ambush. Times, Sunday Times
Under the scorching sun, tens of thousands of people waited patiently to hear the speeches.
The bombs blew up, burning the air and scorching my wings!
Wild goats and donkeys replace the cars on sleepy, scorching roads. Times, Sunday Times
The lava eventually breached the barriers, but it was hindered enough that it atrophied before scorching inhabited land.

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