Burn superficially

Usage examples of scorch.

But they took her aboard, drenching her with stinging antiseptics, scorching her skin with bactericidal ultraviolet rays.

August 1 a line of scorched and smoking ruins replaced the lately-occupied huts, and along the Foyle went a long column of pikes and standards, marking the retreat of the besieging army.

Darcy watched a forlorn family prise open a badly contorted marsupium shell with deep scorch marks on the oyster-coloured casing.

The buildings lining the street were scorched and half-destroyed from the desperate magic that wizards had flung into battle without regard to misfires or precision.

I unlocked the door on a delirious Folly and an awful muttony smell of scorched lamb.

Earl Jieret insisted, then swore a fierce oath as his jab to turn the coals beneath the pannikin shot up sparks that scorched a new hole in his buckskins.

The white-painted lettering on the pentaprism was totally gone, the black magnesium body was scorched and buckled, and the lens cracked completely through.

The ceiling, scorched and blackened though it was, still showed traces of elaborate plasterwork not to be matched even by the ornate ceilings down below, and the fireplace was a masterpiece of variously patterned marbles, ugly in its grandeur, but impressively conceived and executed.

Sedgwick had no talent for prevarication, when it came to kissing, his skills scorched.

And if a pointy-bearded Director of Photography got grazed across the ankle, if a towel-boy or a makeup-girl lost a finger or two, if Charity Divine had her hairstyle scorched or Schlong Gielgud stopped one in the rump who cared?

It was every shade of gray, from scorched earth to beaten stone, and nothing lived in it for as far as the eye could see.

The flames they had called up had not injured them, but now the heat radiating back from the scorched valley walls was almost overpowering.

But as soon as Owen moved forward, the scorched sides just closed together again, like a slow-moving man trap.

It was mostly bones, scorched and blackened by the terrible energies of the disrupter beam, but somehow still held together by strands of bloody meat.

No matter their differences, no matter the distrust between them, her want of him scorched her to the core.