1
: very hot
2
: marked by extreme intensity, harshness, or emotional power
searing pain
a searing review
a searing portrayal
searingly
adverb
Examples of searing in a Sentence
the searing heat of the fire
She felt a searing pain in her foot.
She made a searing attack on her political enemies.
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There’s a significant battery life tax to pay for the microLED model’s searing brightness, too.
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Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
But the gifted Argentinian auteur has never tackled the issue as directly as in Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra), a searing and detailed chronicle of murder, bigotry and robbery on a massive scale that also marks the director’s first feature-length documentary.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
Lawrence Osborne’s 2014 novel, Ballad of a Small Player isn’t really Shakespeare-adjacent but the movie adaptation in the hands of the brilliant filmmaker Edward Berger with a searing, ferocious performance from Colin Farrell, is up there with the Bard.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
Ahmed explained that the experience played a pivotal part in his accepting a role in Darius Marder's searing 2019 drama Sound of Metal, which earned the actor his first Oscar nomination.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
But the gifted Argentinian auteur has never tackled the issue as directly as in Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra), a searing and detailed chronicle of murder, bigotry and robbery on a massive scale that also marks the director’s first feature-length documentary.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
Lawrence Osborne’s 2014 novel, Ballad of a Small Player isn’t really Shakespeare-adjacent but the movie adaptation in the hands of the brilliant filmmaker Edward Berger with a searing, ferocious performance from Colin Farrell, is up there with the Bard.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
Ahmed explained that the experience played a pivotal part in his accepting a role in Darius Marder's searing 2019 drama Sound of Metal, which earned the actor his first Oscar nomination.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for searing
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“Searing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/searing. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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