How to Use searing in a Sentence

searing

adjective

• She felt a searing pain in her foot.
• She made a searing attack on her political enemies.
• The images were some of the most searing of the pandemic.
  — Biman Mukherji, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2022
• His head was caked with blood that had dried quickly in the searing heat.
  — Andrew Downie, Time, 3 Dec. 2022
• Albrecht wore a face mask much of that season to cope with the searing smoke.
  — Madeline Ostrander, The Atlantic, 23 July 2022
• The crew had languished for weeks at the mercy of storms, a searing sun and the constant threat of shark attacks.
  — Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
• As blazes burned across Portugal, the searing heat smashed records.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
• By Danin Pepper is a high-end hot sauce that gives every dish a searing bite.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2023
• It’s a searing portrait of a working-class man who has struggled all his life to achieve.
  — Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 9 Oct. 2022
• Many have been forced to spend hours in the searing heat to fill their tanks at gas stations, or to receive supplies of food and medicine.
  — Iqbal Athas, CNN, 7 May 2022
• Even the iPhone 14 Pro Max doesn't have the zoom range for it, and the phone's autoexposure will turn the moon into a searing blob of white.
  — WIRED, 19 Mar. 2023
• The searing heat has forced outdoor workers like Das to change their working hours.
  — Soumya Sarkar, Quartz, 19 Apr. 2022
• The Princess is at once fodder for royal spectators—and a searing indictment of the role the public and the press played in her death.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 13 Aug. 2022
• Soldiers are stationed at gas stations to calm customers, who line up for hours in the searing heat to fill their tanks.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
• In the southeast of the island, the ridge coincides with a searing hot column of molten rock, known as a hot spot, which drives even more volcanic fury.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
• This short, searing book is about more than statistics; it’s about the real people whose lives have been torn apart by guns.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 15 Dec. 2022
• Temperatures are forecast to reach the low to mid-80s, with a chance of rain, providing a respite from the searing heat of the previous week.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• Musk pushed back on the author's suggestion with a searing response.
  — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 23 Apr. 2023
• John Hersey published his searing account of the event at the end of August 1946—taking up an entire issue of the New Yorker.
  — Michael Auslin, WSJ, 23 July 2023
• The fissure – cracked open on the northeastern slope of the world’s largest active volcano – feeds a searing flow of molten rock that cuts through the contours of Hawaii’s Big Island.
  — David Culver, CNN, 5 Dec. 2022
• For many volunteers, the searing image of Alan Kurdi was a turning point.
  — USA Today, 28 Dec. 2021
• His most searing works were influenced by the birth of Oe’s mentally disabled son in 1963.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, ajc, 14 Mar. 2023
• The Son is a searing work of Texana, a destroyer of myths that manages to create some indelible ones of its own.
  — Chris Vognar, Chron, 28 May 2023
• No real tweaks, no rejoinder from the new Swift to the old one — just a searing take on the sort of love that makes for a better song than relationship.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• That day, the temperatures topped out at a searing 108.5 degrees.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 23 Aug. 2023
• The players’ desire to reach their level—and inability to do so—drive the film’s most searing sequences.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• Is the searing summer heat forcing you to crank up your A/C and electric fans, leading to soaring energy costs in your home?
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• Akwaeke Emezi's new novel is a sizzling summer read, and a searing probing of the human heart and the ragged journey of healing in the face of immense grief.
  — EW.com, 12 May 2022
• Some of the most searing images from the last decade were of Islamic State terrorists beheading hostages on video.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2022
• Sitting for long periods of time will send searing pain down my thighs and tighten my lower back.
  — SELF, 4 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024