Burning superficially

Usage examples of singeing.

We had a few teething troubles in the butchery department: Ace used her lightgun on the first one, and it exploded with a surprised expression upon its face, singeing my eyebrows.

Several landed on her head, singeing through her hair to sting her scalp.

A shockwave of heat washed over them, blistering exposed skin, singeing hair.

A tremendous gout of yellow flame leapt from it, singeing the Doctor's hair.

For a few agonizing moments I could feel the increasing warmth from my scalp and smell the singeing hair, but dared not move.

Hephaestus's terrible breath came forth yet again, melting the stone in the alcove, chasing Jarlaxle down the tunnel, and singeing the seat of his trousers.

Blue-faced and shuddering with cold--no joke, Mallory thought grimly, squatting motionless for half an hour on that bleak and frozen hillside--he hunched down silently by the fire, dragged out the inevitable cigarette and gazed moodily into the flames, oblivious alike of the clouds of steam that almost immediately enveloped him, of the acrid smell of his singeing clothes.

Gasping for air, hair singeing and clothes smouldering with fire, Mallory clawed his way back up the slope, colliding with trees, slipping, falling, then stumbling desperately to his feet again.

Heat thrummed back against us, almost singeing the exposed hairs on my legs, my chest.

I could feel the heat soaking into me, sapping my strength, almost singeing the hairs on my bare arms and legs.