How To Use Searing In A Sentence

A minute later Arsenal extended their lead after breaking with searing pace.
The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them. Times, Sunday Times
The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
His wrist gave an ugly grinding sound and searing pain tore through him like knives.
New cooks will learn blanching and searing and how to sauté.

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It took searing depression to break the self-delusion in the 1930s. The United States faces a crisis not seen since the Depression | Will Hutton
What other character do you know of who is searingly brilliant, stunningly engaging in his rat-a-tat-tat conversational wizardly, totally and even smugly tactless and rude - and still adored? Bella DePaulo: Facebook Movie: The Arrogance of Achievement vs. the Arrogance of Inheritance
Resting the animal, keeping the foot that has the ring-bone on it in proper balance and counterirritation by means of blisters and cautery (searing) are important lines of treatment. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
You might expect the music of this remarkable life to express a searing, protesting intensity.
I am sure, have joined with me in unshakeable faith that this crucial test will be met; that the searing lessons of this latest war and the promise of the United Nations Organization will be the cornerstones of a new edifice of enduring peace and the guideposts of a new era of human progress. Cordell Hull - Acceptance Speech
The searing heat can easily cause severe burns that can result in hospitalization, disfiguration, extreme pain, or death.
Back before the Searing, they started out as the Ascalon Vanguard, an elite unit that fought alongside Prince Rurik and later ventured into the charr lands to take the battle to them. Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
I grabbed a hold of it and started to slide but quickly felt the heat of the metal searing my hands from friction.
This war has already given us searing television images.
The article was a searing attack on the government.
Temperatures with highs in the 90 s and a searing sun greet all who step off airplanes.
A sharp, searing pain shot through his arm like a bullet.
That same thing was usually pain; pain is where the pincers of angry lobsters meet the hot, flesh-searing ends of a burning communist cigars.
He once thought that all this yearning would consume him in its searing intensity, until he could no longer bear the pain.
Sanjeet screamed in agony, pain searing throughout his entire body.
The film reiterates this distinction between worlds by directly contrasting the aquamarines, open sky and searing light of Spain with the cold, wet and overbearingly cramped world of London.
His previously expressed opinion was that it would be moved to the winter to avoid the searing desert heat. Times, Sunday Times
Nick heard the crack of his bone splintering as a searing pain shot through his face.
But underneath the searing humour runs a strain of deep discontent at the lives of the dispossessed in society.
The searing heat of the day was almost unbearable. Times, Sunday Times
When the pan is searing hot, place the prawns on top of the salt. Times, Sunday Times
This thing around my neck is searing and blistering my skin black and cutting off circulation to my brain and life-giving oxygen to my lungs.
His bold lines and bright, unmodulated colors lend themselves well to these images, which constitute a searing critique not only of the Iraq war, but also of U.S. priorities and values and the American Dream.
Rugged shrubs like barberry and potentilla give the garden permanent structure, while the rocks help protect the plants from searing winds and keep the soil from drying out.
At different moments in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, the noted Shakespearean Mark Rylance sports a pickelhaube the spiked emblem of Great War-era German militarism, a knit cap with satanic-looking triangular points, and a searing cross burned into his back by vengeful hooligans. Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem
Released in 1981, as riots raged on Britain's streets, Ghost Town was one of the most searingly eloquent protest songs ever written.
Bent The film version of Martin Sherman's searing stage play stars Clive Owen as a gay inmate of Dachau who denies his homosexuality and is given a yellow rather than a pink star to wear.
His throat was burning, and the movement had caused him to pull back, away from Brackett, which sent a searing pain down both arms.
The muscles along her stomach clenched, and her insides contracted with a searing pain.
The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them. Times, Sunday Times
Their relationship's combustibility lurches to the fore in the first moments of this searing production, directed by Patrick Egan: Family Feud: Teeth of the Sons
This was as real an investigation into homelessness as Dynasty was a searing critique of rampant capitalism. Times, Sunday Times
The metal where Cath's hands grabbed suddenly flashed hot, searing her skin.
The cool and refreshing water caressed his lips, he drank but as he swallowed, his throat sent searing pain to his brain.
The contrast between the battlefield scenes and the courtroom battles is searing. Times, Sunday Times
The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
This book should be of interest to readers fascinated but perplexed by the current financial crisis, as it is able to navigate the oubliette of Wall Street trading to create searing and intimate drama. Union Atlantic: Summary and book reviews of Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett.
Just then, a searing note burst from the stage - the band was ready.
As prostitute par excellence, the example of the Magdalen could be called upon to reveal the way forward for women needing to seek repentance from sexual misconduct (the theme so searingly explored in the movie of the Irish magdalens).
John Pilger recently wrote a searing indictment of the ‘liberal media’ - the Guardian and Independent very much included.
It's a question all education leaders, politicians, and the chattering classes have been busying themselves with since the release of Davis Guggenheim's searing (and unflattering) documentary. Steve Barr At Big Task Weekend: We're Close, But We're Still Just 'Cute'
Now, thanks in part to the searing, potent music of Brooklyn-based rocker Tamar-kali, the genre is edging into the mainstream. Brooklyn Songstress Grows Into a Label-Crossing Punk
The best of these also shone a searing light on the society that had spawned their heroes and villains. Times, Sunday Times
In the searing hot sun, the road-gang convicts endure back-breaking physical labor - chopping dusty weeds by the side of the highway.
Chiren yelled, pain searing all the way up to his neck.
With its account of binge dieting and lonely nights, it was searing real-life drama. Times, Sunday Times
Worse, the horns radiated heat, searing his hands.
This material is ideal for heating to intensely high temperature for searing and stir-frying, but it also means that, unlike the other low-maintenance equipment in my kitchen, the wok is a fussbudget. Archive 2007-09-01
The Mani is a good place to walk at any time of the year, except in the searing heat of midsummer.
As it was, he felt a searing pain across his midsection as her incredibly-sharp point ripped through his nightwear and into his skin.
These searing theater lights can irradiate in white, red, purple, blue, or any other hue. BARRACUDA 945
I knew that lobotomy and shock now called electroconvulsive therapy or ECT were nearly one in the same -- both assaults on the highest centers of the brain, one with scalpels and hot electrodes, the other with searing jolts of electricity. Dr. Peter Breggin: The Stealth ECT Psychiatrist in Psychiatric Reform
Her performance in Whale Rider was a searing and yet quiet one; nothing loud or splashy, screaming, ‘I'm Oscar worthy!’
The visitors started at a searing pace, putting Everton's back line under frantic pressure.
Nick heard the crack of his bone splintering as a searing pain shot through his face.
Between searingly bright periods, the sky boils with thundery clouds that drift on by without releasing a drop.
He squinted with pain as the searing heat passed by.
The temperature of the plasma is searing, so it can counterbalance atmospheric pressure even though its density is only two percent of normal air.
Searing phaser fire stabbed out from above and below the windows, and a couple of burning torpedoes soared up from below, converging on the neck of the Klingon battlecruiser. Star Trek The Next Generation®
On the nose, it has strong, fragrant aromas of gooseberry and lime, supported by searingly fresh acidity on the palate.
Some songs were clearly tailor-made to showcase his guitar prowess, namely a bombastic take on "Big Love" and a searing, extended solo on "I'm So Afraid. Boston.com Most Popular
The searing human feelings of these characters are often narrated in awkward English to achieve an Orientalist effect, to defamiliarize universal emotions as exotic, somehow deeper, ones.
In this searing indictment, he argues that the law lord's findings clearly contradict the evidence he heard.
But it was she and her sisters who prompted their mother to be so searingly honest about John Thaw, she tells Margarette Driscoll
In fact, the trend in Germany at the high end of the market is toward drier wines, some of which can be searingly citric. Here's to a Very Good Year: 10 Wine Resolutions
The frequently brilliant and sometimes searing interviewer has a compassionate side that discomposes itself into a medley of expressions on camera.
When searing the meat, if oil is splattering out of the pan, you have the heat too high.
Light-flash, searingly bright, bursting from the end of a long tunnel like a fireball. GRACE
The article is a searing attack on government mismanagement.
There simply is no regulatory solution to the millions of tons of searingly fetid, toxic effluvium that industrial hog farms discharge and aerosolize on a daily basis. Archive 2009-04-01
Ivan changes tempo, throwing back his head and swelling his voice around a soul-searing ballad, as if his life depended on it.
My role as assistant editor during his tenure was made immeasurably easier by his tireless capacity for work, his searing intelligence and his courteous good humour. Times, Sunday Times
He jerked his arms loose and reached for the head trying to blink the searing pain from his eyes.
Sconces on the wall brightened, then erupted into searing incandescence that glittered on gold and shining jewels.
The L.A. Times team has written a searing, unflinching and unequivocal indictment of a morally criminal operation bereft of any apologies or doubts.
After hearing the searing criticism of Rice's food services, Ditman made it his goal to make improvements and change the university's reputation.
The shore, one of the most westerly in Africa, is cooled by the north-east trade winds, taking some of the edge off the searing tropical heat.
Based on a 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek in which she drew on her relationship with a domineering mother, and on her own repressed sexuality, the film is a searing study of its title character's sexual pathology.
It was a nice contrast to the choko khatsé, a spiced potato side dish that was almost tongue-searing in comparison.
The searing heat of the day was almost unbearable. Times, Sunday Times
As she dresses off-screen after being with a client, she smiles, as if satisfied, but gradually her guard drops and a searing sadness transforms her face.
The searing heat of the morning gave way to a windswept evening, with the water as ripply as an English seaside fun pool.
This Finnish trio of cellists return with a driving and beautiful collection of songs featuring soaring string work underlaid by metal drumming and pre-programming to give the songs a searing edge.
Anybody who has experienced Delhi in searing April temperatures will know how amazingly tempting curries can be. Times, Sunday Times
The screen burned with the violent and lovely image of zeta-10 Scorpii, nested deep in its eye-searing indigo and violet shells. THE WOUNDED SKY
Four mountain passes and searing heat. Times, Sunday Times
Four mountain passes and searing heat. Times, Sunday Times
She has searing pace and will like the ground. The Sun
Next up is Thomasina Miers' roast tomato salsa, from Mexican Food Made Simple, which blackens the tomatoes, garlic and chillies in a searingly hot pan first. How to make perfect salsa
The sidewalk was searingly hot, yet she didn't appear to feel anything. COMPULSION
I watch men or women pushing carts heavily laden with their wares in searing temperatures, stifling humidity or drenching rain.
His report was never going to be the searing, damning indictment some had longed for.
Talking about his wife has been searing for him. Times, Sunday Times
Footage from "A Fire in My Belly"—much of it edited to music from Diamanda Galas's "Plague Mass"—is spliced in for a searingly poignant effect. Censored, Censured, but Never Forgotten
Rugged shrubs like barberry and potentilla give the garden permanent structure, while the rocks help protect the plants from searing winds and keep the soil from drying out.
Using the sticks around me, I placed the ten trout vertically around the searing flame.
The show's searing heartbeat, a bass aria of operatic grandeur. Times, Sunday Times
Vibrant prints, block colours, searing white and filmy ice-cream shades will all feature heavily in the summer.
She was a searingly intelligent woman with vast potential. Trish Kinney: A Non-Feminist Role Model
Passionate, committed and a searing indictment of capitalism, imperialism and war.
A searing cold gale caused Raven to stumble hard, off balance.
Barry's ability to write with such intensity and honesty about his own family makes for a searing, intense drama.
This was as real an investigation into homelessness as Dynasty was a searing critique of rampant capitalism. Times, Sunday Times
We have experienced the searing image of a woman bleeding to death. The Sun
Rodgers lay on his back, the hot concrete searing his sores but easing his muscles.
Moore has just finished his autobiography, One Voice - My Life in Song, a funny, moving and searingly honest book, as you would expect from an unblinking chronicler of Irish ways and Irish laws.
He had exquisite technique that was matched by searing pace and deceptive strength. The Sun
But whatever his precise social status or reason forpreaching in the kingdom of Israel, the oracles recorded in his name provide a searing condemnation of the lavish lifestyles and material reality of Israel’s aristocracy in the eighth centuryBCE: The Bible Unearthed
It is also a heart-rending account of the searing, slow dissolution of a marriage. Times, Sunday Times
A rush of warmth flowed through his body, and it quickly began to intensify, growing searingly hot.
Then it erupted in a shower of cold, bright stars, brilliant with a sharp, astonishing, searing pain.
In the literary genre, Sutherland recommends the Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis's epistolatory novel of Christian apologetics; Letters to my Torturer, Iranian journalist Houshang Asadi's searing memoir of his 682 days in solitary confinement written in the form of letters to Brother Hamid, his torturer; and the remarkable website Letter to my Abuser, on which women can publish letters to their abusers. Gordon Ramsay: 'Dear Mother-in-law'
The neurons of his retina would sizzle and hiss at the searing touch of light. THE BROKEN GOD
Forced to walk for miles each day in the searing heat to find grass in this arid land, it is a harsh existence. Times, Sunday Times
Emily felt a searing anger against her father.
It was a queer remark, mediaeval in its construction, but searing in its heat.
Yet to sojourn in San Antonio unherbed was to set off under the searing sun naked, scalped, and bootless across some scree of burning rock straight out of Cormac McCarthy. Alamo Rag
Now is a time for searing honesty. The Sun
Suddenly, the haymow was ablaze with a searing, white light.
What other character do you know of who is searingly brilliant, stunningly engaging in his rat-a-tat-tat conversational wizardly, totally and even smugly tactless and rude - and still adored? Bella DePaulo: Facebook Movie: The Arrogance of Achievement vs. the Arrogance of Inheritance
Our film, Body of War, has been described as a searingly honest portrait of his journey, both personal and political. Ellen Spiro: Body of War -- Take Action for Tomas Young
Ehrenreich's searing book chronicles her experiences as a cultural explorer among America's working poor.
She hits downward, a jolt searing through my shoulder blade, I sag visibly.
Multiple vocals, searing wah-wah, unfettered drums; it sounded like four bands bleeding together in an apartment fire, and it was fiercely exciting.
Her latest novel is a searing tale of love and hate.
This is a great treat for Newman fans - the man, his voice, his joanna and searingly caustic lyrics.
They are purposely hidden away at backwater college campuses, where the monstrously large football mesomorphs must cavort under the searing sun, be-helmeted, in all their hot and bulky pads.
The article is a searing attack on government mismanagement.
The novel is a searing indictment of urban poverty.
Hope against hope, at a certain point, becomes too searingly painful to watch, because the disconnect between the glimmer of hope and the inevitable grief is just too dissonant.
The farthest North humans have gotten pre-searing is shown in The Flight North mission * Gwen's BMP mission*, which is right at the boarder of seared land and lush green. The Unofficial GuildWars Site
Evidently, only the images and metaphors of fiction could do justice to the welter of searing impressions.
Seeing things break, disintegrate, or explode, at absolutely no personal risk to yourself, lights up some primitive reptilian part of our brain with searing glee.
With its account of binge dieting and lonely nights, it was searing real-life drama. Times, Sunday Times
The muscles along her stomach clenched, and her insides contracted with a searing pain.
The searing heat also fuses the soil into an impermeable layer that increases runoff and stream sedimentation and slows the forest's ability to recover.
It is a searching, and at times searingly funny, story of Rob Sheffield and his wife, Renée, who gave each other just what they needed. October 2009
He could feel a searing pain in his head and his vision was blurred.
We have experienced the searing image of a woman bleeding to death. The Sun
The engrossing series is a searing reminder of man's capacity for unimaginable acts of inhumanity against fellow man.
A searing pain tore through her stomach and she shrieked, trying not to writhe on the table. 365 tomorrows » featured writer : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them. Times, Sunday Times
The actress 'searing, deglamorized turn as a rape victim repeatedly attacked by the same perp over 15 years was scarier than anything she ever witnessed in Ghost Whisperer or I Know What You Did Last Summer. Cheers & Jeers: JLH is AOK on SVU
The downpour cooled off the searing heat but failed to ease the city's looming water shortage.
But she went on to give a searing description of the ennui the work brings - broken only when the tea trolley arrives.
With its account of binge dieting and lonely nights, it was searing real-life drama. Times, Sunday Times
A patient may complain for three or four days of a tingling, burning, itching, searing or knife-like pain along the lowest ribs.
On the nose, it has strong, fragrant aromas of gooseberry and lime, supported by searingly fresh acidity on the palate.
Strings, chimes, horns, pianos and bells appear in nearly every song, no matter how fast the tempo or searing the guitars, and, most importantly, they never feel forced.
It is a searing look at what an immensely complicated task it is to forgive the unforgiveable.
Pain was still searing throughout his left shoulder.
Her novel is a searing portrait of 1950s society.
The White House is in massive damage control mode today after another searing, book-length indictment from a former insider.
That can't last, of course, for "Cat's Cradle" is jampacked with Vonnegut's characteristically searing sarcasm and vaudeville tempo. Longacre Lea unravels the twisted string theory of Vonnegut's 'Cat's Cradle'
Not only does she trill and sing accurate coloratura, she also gives a searing portrayal of Irene.
The searing heat and intense humidity was his biggest challenge. The Sun
He could see the furnaces where he had worked, the heat from the bright, white hot metal searing the faces of the workmen as they poured and ladled it into the casting moulds.
How will those hardy minions survive the summer blasts of arctic air conditioning in between the bouts of broiling street heat beneath searing serge?
Under a searing sun, the expedition pushed northwest along the Cannonball River Valley.
That letter, or rather email, was the start of a long exchange of 'searing questions and even thornier truths'. Times, Sunday Times
I nodded slightly, starting to sit up, ignoring the twinges of pain searing across my whole upper body.
I squeezed my eyes shut in an attempt to cool the searing burn in the centre of my brain. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
At just less than 4 pounds, the box is light enough to toss out the window if Kitty's soul-searing gaze becomes too much for you.
I also liked the people who read the piece as a searing indictment of corporate sponsorship.
This 18-volt light offers 500 lumens of searing white light for 20 minutes, or you can employ the 250-lumen lamp assembly to extend run time to one hour.
His distinctive voice resonates like polished grit over a combination of searing strings, Hawaiian lap steels, mellotrons and even enchanted lyres.
He had exquisite technique that was matched by searing pace and deceptive strength. The Sun
At five minutes long, the track is an oddity on an album of searing, straight-ahead punk rock that takes not one prisoner.
Just as one leather-jacketed, slouching renegade by name of Jim Steel took me under his musical wing, to open my ears to the glories of The Stooges, The Ramones, Radio Birdman and suchlike, it was one surgical-gowned, growling reprobate by name of Fergus Bannon who opened up my eyes, searing his scribblings on the inside of my skull -- right at the back, by the medulla oblongata, the snake-brain. Archive 2009-12-01
Instead of a searing indictment of capitalism, black top-hatted fatcats, and laissez-faire government, it was a love letter.
The same sensation clawed at his cheek and he gasped, the pain searing, yet unreal.
The onlookers, blinded by the flash, burned by its searing heat, covered their eyes and cringed in terror.
This means that what might have been a searing account of the emotional damage sustained by those caught up in sectarian violence comes across as disappointingly bland. Times, Sunday Times
In the second half he stepped infield instead of using his searing pace. Times, Sunday Times
He poured his heart out in soaring songs of praise, in searing prayers, in sublime thanksgiving, in words infinitely more exalted than any I could conjure up.
The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them. Times, Sunday Times
The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them. Times, Sunday Times
The unlikely trio followed cooled lava flows, or places where the searing rivers of fire had yet to flow, their path taking them on a zigzag course up the blackened and charred slope of the mountain.
But, before she could even help with the fight, she felt a sharp pain searing through her left arm.
Her writing is searingly honest, brutally revealing, and wickedly self-aware. Boing Boing
In my start I moved my position and a searing pain shot like a bolt driven home through my ankle. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
Lack of snow last winter, almost no rain in spring or summer and searing temperatures for prolonged periods have had a major impact on the grape harvest.
And the final climactic emotional moment is cringe inducing rather than searingly moving.
Without a moment's thought, Ryuji placed a searing kiss on her lips.
At the base of the food chain are bacteria that dwell in the searing fluids belching from the volcanic vents.
It's a searing indictment of a political elite which can champion Britpop and a return to 1960s cool on the one hand without realising the implications.
There was the ghost of a slipstream behind me before the searing, slashing sting of the cane bit deeply into my flesh and the wave of pain spread throughout me like frozen meat instantly defrosting.
Add Bellamy's searing pace into that attack and it makes for a stressful afternoon for the Rangers rearguard.
A searing flame attacked his nerves as his arm went limp at his side.
The sound of an ocean amid the searingly dry heat of the Sahara - it could only be Mauritania.
On a recent weekend, Dynamite, one of only two youth teams in the league, swept the older and burlier Samaritan Village squad in a double-header under a searing sun, seizing first place. Treating Addicts Using Bats, Balls
The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them. Times, Sunday Times
Anybody who has experienced Delhi in searing April temperatures will know how amazingly tempting curries can be. Times, Sunday Times
What you get instead is an hour of searing emotional honesty. Times, Sunday Times

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