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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His own divorce from actress Jennifer Jason Leigh informed his Oscar-winning Marriage Story (2019), a searing look at love unraveling.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
And McConaughey, as a nervy reluctant hero, steers the searing, intense narrative about normal people living through the most hellish of circumstances.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
With the media’s normalization of white nationalism, recent years have made clear that there is a new urgency to assess the role that artists, through works of art, have played to illuminate the searing contours of the American body politic.
—Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Six minutes later, Ceddanne Rafaela smoked a searing triple to center, vaulting the Red Sox into October and Chapman into uncharted territory.
—Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
And McConaughey, as a nervy reluctant hero, steers the searing, intense narrative about normal people living through the most hellish of circumstances.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
With the media’s normalization of white nationalism, recent years have made clear that there is a new urgency to assess the role that artists, through works of art, have played to illuminate the searing contours of the American body politic.
—Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Six minutes later, Ceddanne Rafaela smoked a searing triple to center, vaulting the Red Sox into October and Chapman into uncharted territory.
—Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 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 8 Oct. 2025.
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