toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

sear
in a sentence

show 189 more with this conextual meaning
  • The cicadas pierce the air with their searing one-note calls; dust eddies across the roads; from the weedy patches at the verges, grasshoppers whir.†   (source)
  • The dense, searing planetary core material gushed to the surface, and the oceans boiled over the lava.†   (source)
  • A searing pain shot through the foot I was massaging.†   (source)
  • Seared for fifteen minutes at 450° and then roasted for two hours at 3500, her roast is tender and red at the center yet crispy and brown at the crust.†   (source)
  • The words seared the air.†   (source)
  • Her response, more than anything I've ever heard, is seared in my memory.†   (source)
  • He knew he should run into the Maze and help, but the rule about not leaving the Glade was seared into his mind.†   (source)
  • It was the first of three times that he would feel the searing heat of a bullet -enter his body.†   (source)
  • Only Babu was indifferent to the outburst and to the searing stare that bored into him like a drill.†   (source)
  • He lay there, bleeding and burning, his eyes shut against the searing heat, and for the first time in his life, he felt ready to die.†   (source)
  • The gun roared, and the curator felt a searing heat as the bullet lodged in his stomach.†   (source)
  • For a few endless moments, Tally felt only relief to have escaped the searing wind, the thundering machine, the blistering heat of the firestorm.†   (source)
  • Eyes wide, I fling my right arm over my shoulder, forcing a searing pain through my body, and fire three times behind me.†   (source)
  • The words hung there, searing themselves on the little room long after the sound had died away.†   (source)
  • The water seared his hands and arms.†   (source)
  • As the searing flames surged and rolled higher along the sides of the shelter, his laughter grew hysterical.†   (source)
  • The carpet burst into flames; the heat was so intense, it nearly seared off my eyebrows.†   (source)
  • In a final gesture of frustration, the big hind leg lifted up and kicked the Land Cruiser over, and Grant felt searing pain and the surprising sensation of his own body flying through the air.†   (source)
  • Although I was numb from the cold, the pain seared through me each time, like being branded by a poker.†   (source)
  • The judge banged his gavel, my face flushed hot, and my throat seared.†   (source)
  • One of the stray bullets scrapes me and searing pain shoots up my arm.†   (source)
  • When they were first married and Albert went away on trips for work, Jutta would wake in the predawn hours and remember those first nights after Werner left for Schulpforta and feel all over again the searing pain of his absence.†   (source)
  • Because if I got trapped in a blaze started by arcing electrical overload in the wall of the garage, the searing pain of losing my mom and dad would go up in smoke with me.†   (source)
  • I scrambled back onto the float, still seared by what he had said.†   (source)
  • The viscous oil clung to the skin and seared through the tissue.†   (source)
  • Air screams back into my lungs, searing my throat and nose, but I don't care.†   (source)
  • You cook the meat in animal fat over high heat to sear it, then add potatoes and vegetables and the rest.†   (source)
  • But even that distance between herself and Pedro was not enough; she felt her blood pulsing, searing her veins.†   (source)
  • She could feel her flesh sear and blacken and slough away, could feel her blood boil and turn to steam, and yet there was no pain.†   (source)
  • But it came—like a hot iron across my back, burning into me through my light shirt, searing my skin ….†   (source)
  • The fire in my face burned on and on, deep through my flesh, searing my soul.†   (source)
  • For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory.†   (source)
  • What could he say in a single word, a few words, that would sear all their faces and wake them up?†   (source)
  • It crept up by slight degrees and spread sideways in a thin crescent blade, and within seconds two suns were visible, furnaces of light, searing the black edge of the horizon with white fire.†   (source)
  • At the next theater, ten or twelve blocks down, it was the same story: the CIA film had started, as had the well-reviewed biopic of a 1940s leading lady; the French cop movie didn't start for another hour and a half; and unless I wanted the psychopath film or the searing family drama, which I didn't, it was more brides and bachelor parties and Santa hats and Pixar.†   (source)
  • To braise it, I'd first sear it in a frying pan and then slow roast it in liquid.†   (source)
  • Every four or five steps I'd have to stop, lean against the rope, and suck desperately at the thin, bitter air, searing my lungs in the process.†   (source)
  • That one word keeps scripting itself on my brain, as though it is being seared there.†   (source)
  • He knew immediately that he was alive, because of the searing pain permeating every cubic centimetre of his body.†   (source)
  • People burn trash by the rails, sending up more heat and a searing stench.†   (source)
  • The hedge creatures were all in their original positions, but they were denuded, blackened, seared.†   (source)
  • Pain sliced and seared my arms.†   (source)
  • Whoever it was, we knew about it already: the Bay of Pigs, the seared skin, the bare-handed killers who'd do anything.†   (source)
  • I couldn't hear or see or feel anything except that throbbing, searing fire centered in my eyes.†   (source)
  • It surprised him that, more than grief, he found a searing anger.†   (source)
  • I could have fallen trembling on the ground but stood and watched instead, watched Kilanga's children shout and dance each time they found the scorched, angular bodies of a mother baboon and baby seared together.†   (source)
  • From the verandah I saw the sun near the horizon, searing the ocean.†   (source)
  • I woke screaming in the middle of the night, in agony, terrified as the scar seared itself into my flesh.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, if we had an element of doubt about the strength of the opposition behind that door, we would throw in a few flash-crashes, which do not explode and knock down walls or anything but do unleash a series of very loud, almost deafening bangs accompanied by searing white flashes.†   (source)
  • A sudden, searing pain in my right leg.†   (source)
  • Still, there was no denying the searing pain that was growing bigger every second.†   (source)
  • The arresting officer was named Donald Lima, and this name, Donald Lima, seared itself into her mind.†   (source)
  • There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body.†   (source)
  • I dog-eared it, wrote in it, copied whole passages so I wouldn't forget their texture, the passion, this searing work of a street dude and hype in Spanish Harlem — a barrio boy like me, on the other side of America.†   (source)
  • His grip relaxes, and I roll away hard, actually hearing hair tear out of the front of my scalp, and I'm up and screaming down the block fast and loud, seconds before searing pain bursts into my left shoulder blade.†   (source)
  • And then, with a searing shame, she realized: They thought she was stealing shirtwaists.†   (source)
  • The pain was searing.†   (source)
  • Even through their closed lids, the twins could see the searing light that lit up the interior of the car.†   (source)
  • Pain shot up her arm, but it was nothing compared to the searing pain inside her chest.†   (source)
  • In response to the searing pain, he knocked over the stove and griddle and dropped the bowl of pancake batter onto the sandy ground.†   (source)
  • I can feel it now, the light searing my retinas, everything stark and white, horrifying.†   (source)
  • I put the napkin in my pocket and I think of Ky writing out his story with his red hands, seared from the heat of the job he does.†   (source)
  • Where the iron touched his skin it felt like knives and needles and nails, like the searing pain of frost, like the sting of a hundred biting flies.†   (source)
  • She was glad of the darkness so he could not see the searing blush that shook her all the way to the base of her skull.†   (source)
  • Glass closed her eyes, bracing herself for the searing pain, the screaming of her nerves as they lost contact with her hand.†   (source)
  • Now the breeze that fingered her robes seared the patches of exposed skin at cheeks and forehead.†   (source)
  • The sound ricocheted off the bare rock face of the mountain and filled the air so that it seared from every direction.†   (source)
  • The pain was searing, and I remember the dirt around me transforming into a blur of legs, then concerned faces, as two of our players, both EMTs, ran to my aid.†   (source)
  • The thought of giving him up seared my soul.†   (source)
  • I surfaced, splashing, my eyes seared with salt.†   (source)
  • His hands slid up my neck, searing hot.†   (source)
  • When the ankle had twisted, the searing pain must have made him unconscious.†   (source)
  • When it's open, her fingers roam over my chest and shoulders, searing my skin.†   (source)
  • One afternoon, I was playing soccer when I attempted to steal the ball and felt a searing pain in my heel.†   (source)
  • I smell seared beef, and my stomach twists from hunger.†   (source)
  • The blue sky deepens to violet, and the searing desert air cools.†   (source)
  • He knew then, and he was gripped by a pain as gritty and searing as the hot sand beneath his feet.†   (source)
  • The click of the sear and the click of the cylinderhand falling into place were sharp and clear in the morning silence.†   (source)
  • As Miro started after her, a searing pain shot through the calf of his left leg.†   (source)
  • In searing headlines, it announced: THE GREAT CALAMITY OF THE AGE!†   (source)
  • And in that moment, between when Colin thought Hornets! and when he would have said "Hornets," he felt a searing sting on the side of his neck.†   (source)
  • A bolt of pain seared my heart.†   (source)
  • It had been midsummer and the plains looked seared, what grass there was, brown and brittle.†   (source)
  • In the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan, five thousand women and girls have been doused in kerosene and set alight by family members or in-laws--or, perhaps worse, been seared with acid--for perceived disobedience just in the last nine years.†   (source)
  • Even Arcaro, one of the most daring riders, admitted that the memory of his first spill, in which a horse stepped on his back and another kicked his skull, leaving him with a concussion, two fractured ribs, and a punctured lung, was seared into his memory and burned there for the rest of his career.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, the candle is in my hand, hot wax trickling over the sides and searing my skin before cooling into a waxy clump on my wrist.†   (source)
  • And, beyond the frosty glass, beside the silver highway in the searing starlight, a tiny figure darting beneath the upraised arms of the trees.†   (source)
  • Within seconds her clothing was ablaze; the front of her body seared.†   (source)
  • I'd go now, but it's hot, and I make sure never to be outside at this time of day when the sun has a way of stalking me, searing memories into my skin.†   (source)
  • I want sex, sincerity, searing intelligence.†   (source)
  • But when she let me go, I made my final move—the one I'd planned since the white-hot familiar sensation had seared the skin on my back.†   (source)
  • A searing light hit my eyes.†   (source)
  • Esteban Trueba seared him with his fiercest look.†   (source)
  • Yossarian played dead with his eyes shut while the clerk admitted him by shuffling some papers, and then he was rolled away slowly into a stuffy, dark room with searing spotlights overhead in which the cloying smell of formaldehyde and sweet alcohol was even stronger.†   (source)
  • This pain was unlike anything 1 had felt before—plunging, searing, excruciating, far worse than childbirth.†   (source)
  • During his year in California, Will Rudolph had remembered all too well the searing loneliness he had experienced as a boy.†   (source)
  • There's no way he can describe to Berman his unfolding vision of dire warfare-the surrender in CS 22, the imminent rout in psychology, the searing issues that seem to envelop him in education-and how, studying maniacally over forty-eight hours, he felt like he was preparing for a titanic assault on his last stronghold.†   (source)
  • I'd only just hit the ground when there was a blinding flash and a sound like the earth ripping open and a shock wave of searing hot wind that knocked the air from my lungs.†   (source)
  • The strong smell filled the room, and even I felt the searing liquid.†   (source)
  • A searing tale of love, greed, and murder, set in the ruthless world of South American money launderers.†   (source)
  • The intense searing pain of a blade slicing through his leather moccasins and into his heel.†   (source)
  • I was burning, seared by the tears on my cheeks.†   (source)
  • Its Ark was a gutted mass of charred wood, its four Torah scrolls were seared black, its holy books were piles of gray ash blown about by the wind.†   (source)
  • Cesar's head cocked back as the cool liquid seared the back of his throat.†   (source)
  • I came down with the flu, accompanied by searing headaches that lasted weeks after.†   (source)
  • The smoke had become thicker and with each new blow it seemed to sear and further restrict my lungs.†   (source)
  • He attacked immediately and in searing fashion, calling Lord North the "blundering pilot" who had brought the nation to a terrible impasse.†   (source)
  • "Shut up!" yelled Flannagan, awkwardly plodding forward, stopped by the sudden ear-shattering explosion of Bourne's gun, the bullet searing into the floor between the sergeant's legs.†   (source)
  • He felt a searing pain as the attacker squeezed the trigger again and again, crushing his finger.†   (source)
  • Her words I do remember, for they seared me so.†   (source)
  • The moment I do, the searing pain returns.†   (source)
  • He was sitting opposite her, eating his seared sword-fish meticulously without taking his eyes off her.†   (source)
  • That is why she returns to the beauty shop, time and time again, to have her ringlets seared.†   (source)
  • Carrying a Styrofoam cooler and a towel, he continued north, gazing at the seared hills of Malibu beyond the curve of Santa Monica Bay.†   (source)
  • As I turned back and opened fire, I felt a searing burn in my left shoulder, probably glass or shrapnel.†   (source)
  • I whispered, jerking forward, struggling to make my eyes sear through the dark trunks and vines.†   (source)
  • He went on boiling with rage for several days and the next Sunday we were treated to a searing address on the toleration of Mutants which sullied the Purity of our community.†   (source)
  • Hell is on my mind, its searing flames, its savage devils, its prodding, poking, sniggering imps.†   (source)
  • Max stretched his neck away from the searching talons and focused on his uninjured right hand; he felt searing blue flame ignite and writhe around it.†   (source)
  • The water did put out the flames, but it also made steam, which seared to sealing all that was left of the beautiful Hannah Peace.†   (source)
  • He had downed half a jug that night in Kain'tuck, while the boys heated a ramrod over the fire and seared the wound and stopped the blood.†   (source)
  • Her work forCelebrity magazine had been professional, slick and often searing in its way.†   (source)
  • Searing lightning smote down into the hills.†   (source)
  • A searing pain shot up into my body.†   (source)
  • Or would it start at my feet and gradually work its way up my legs, over my body, and zero in right on my head in a brilliant, searing flash of agony before everything went dark?†   (source)
  • Tense, not wanting to move as the heat gradually left me, as the sweat evaporated and I became conscious again of brittle air outside the windows searing and howling through the streets and over the frozen cars hunched like sheep all the way down towards Lake Ontario.†   (source)
  • And yet it seemed everything fell away whenever Captain Ono addressed me, all my carefully built-up perception of things, and in the sorry depletion I could feel the searing, rising surges of what must be pure enmity.†   (source)
  • Alessandro could taste the cold fresh lake water, and the palms of his hands were seared against the hot metal of the engine.†   (source)
  • If anything, their searing experiences refined ideology into a purer, tougher product.†   (source)
  • Jean-Luc asks as the waiter brings over my pan-seared pork medallions and his poached salmon.†   (source)
  • A searing white bolt shot out from his hand, felling the hart where it stood.†   (source)
  • Huge, rippling biceps mountained out of a sleeveless robe in the eye-searing colors of a Martian sunset.†   (source)
  • The sound of tearing metal mixed with their screams was terrible; the smell of freed gasoline and billowy smoke searing.†   (source)
  • Holding me in place, his blue eyes seared into mine.†   (source)
  • All at once he was blinded by a searing white light—arc lights, perhaps a laser.†   (source)
  • Sear one side of hamburger for about 3 to 4 minutes, but never touch it with a spatula (and don't push out the juices!†   (source)
  • These were some of the most passionate moments of their lives together, the most searingly entwined.†   (source)
  • They would be there all night, he knew it, working for drought to sear the land, to kill the livestock, to stunt the corn plants and squash in the gardens, leaving the people more and more vulnerable to the lies; and the young people would leave, go to towns like Albuquerque and Gallup where bitterness would overwhelm them, and they would lose their hope and finally themselves in drinking.†   (source)
  • The searing metal would cut through the delicate walls--that deadly driven rain would not be held out by sticks and mud.†   (source)
  • The Chinook bucked hard, throwing the men against the walls, then a gnashing, ripping, tearing, searing noise—hot metal—then blue smoke everywhere, then a force that drove the men against the walls and pinned them there, then a fierce pressure, then new holes and new wind, and the gunners squatted behind their big guns and fired and fired and fired.†   (source)
  • Before undoing the bundles, my mother would light a tall new candle, which was a luxury, and the pie pans full of old wax and wicks that sometimes sputtered blue, a noise I thought was the germs getting seared.†   (source)
  • Like thousands of other towns and villages not directly seared by war, Fort Repose became an island.†   (source)
  • Too hot to be white, it was a searing ghost at the frontiers of the ultra-violet, burning its planets with radiations which would be instantly lethal to all earthly forms of life.†   (source)
  • She was so chaotically in love with Nathan that it was like dementia, and it is more often than not the person one loves from whom one withholds the most searing truths about one's self, if only out of the very human motive to spare groundless pain.†   (source)
  • And what the scorching, searing, freezing, poisoning weapons of non-life have failed to do may be accomplished to the end of its destruction and extinction by the tactics of survival gone sour.†   (source)
  • He could see Meo's garden patch, weedy but still with the mark of Meo's hand upon it, withering in the searing heat.†   (source)
  • Next day, the Magician magically mended the stern of the Dawn Treader where it had been damaged by the Sear Serpent and loaded her with useful gifts.†   (source)
  • The grove, like a cavorting clown, casts this hubbub As far as that field with its rather steep slope Where the sun-scorched hazels are blazing with color As if they'd been seared by the heat of a fire.†   (source)
  • Some are blue and wrap me gently in their glow; or green and soothing like oxen eyes in the night; but there are others, yellow and red, that sear me with their intensity.†   (source)
  • It brings back, for instance, memories of those nights when the car, after driving endlessly through a chilly, dusty darkness, stopped unexpectedly in front of a square of light where men lounged with glasses in their hands, and one was carried out into the brilliantly-lit bar for a sip of searing liquid "to keep the fever away."†   (source)
  • The blue light turned to searing white, and the Rosetta Stone exploded.†   (source)
  • The smell of molting snakeskin seared my nostrils.†   (source)
  • The blast of searing heat knocked Hugo back.†   (source)
  • A blast of searing hot wind knocked them off their feet.†   (source)
  • He liked his army jacket, and having his pants seared off would've been pretty embarrassing.†   (source)
  • A split second later, the bullet tore into Max's side with a searing, blinding pain.†   (source)
  • They must've been searing hot, but the giants picked them up with their bare hands.†   (source)
  • Searing pain filled his chest as he inhaled the smoky air.†   (source)
  • Marcus shivered, though the heat was searing.†   (source)
  • There's a searing pain just above the back of my right knee.†   (source)
  • It was so cold he felt the skin on his legs searing as though this were fire, not icy water.†   (source)
  • A light blazed upward, searing face's eyes.†   (source)
  • A flame seemed to leap inside his chest, searing his throat.†   (source)
  • Without warning, the scar on his forehead seared with pain again and his stomach churned horribly.†   (source)
  • The sheet did nothing to block the blinding light and searing heat beating down from above.†   (source)
  • Particle accelerators sear the land, and leave radioactive byproducts.†   (source)
  • Every part of his body seared with pain.†   (source)
  • Julian's words swim across my eyes, searing into my soul.†   (source)
  • Me and the boy managed to sear it with a hot iron.†   (source)
  • The sun burned like molten gold, and the land was seared and empty.†   (source)
  • Every time he lifted the arm, a searing pain shot through his side.†   (source)
  • The thought flashes as quickly and clearly as an electrical surge, bringing the pain searing back.†   (source)
  • And one night I am woken by a searing pain and know it's time to go to the hospital.†   (source)
  • Jess sat up, gasping at the searing pain that raked across her back.†   (source)
  • It left Serget's robes seared and smoking, but the goddess looked more enraged than hurt.†   (source)
  • Even as she staggered back in horror, she felt the image searing itself into her memory forever.†   (source)
  • In a searing rush, a wave of ethanol poured into her mouth.†   (source)
  • Poking the sausages on the grill, I generated a new round of searing flames that leapt up.†   (source)
  • A panicky hot flush seared my back and arms.†   (source)
  • Jason fell, light searing into his mind, and his last thought was that his body was burning.†   (source)
  • I wanted to cry, but the fire had seared all the moisture from my tear ducts.†   (source)
  • Harry handed it over, panting, a searing pain in his chest, and waited.†   (source)
  • I turned my head, happy to focus on anything that wasn't the searing pain in my arm.†   (source)
  • Discomfort turns to distress until each breath sends a searing pain through my chest.†   (source)
  • The white sear of his gaze landed on me.†   (source)
  • Harrys scar seared again, but he did not care.†   (source)
  • The temperature plummeted from the searing heat of the day straight into the thirties.†   (source)
  • I pay an extra two dollars to have Cheddar seared into the bendable plastic.†   (source)
  • A searing light flashed, and a deafening explosion detonated beside him.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)