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How to use the word searing in a Sentence?

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We can read a description of the events. We live in a violent culture, and serving around these clips as entertainment only really makes us more violent. I don’t think the solution is ‘let’s all watch and gawk and stoke our outrage.’ We are outraged enough already without the added trauma of searing these images into our minds, you have to think about the toll that this takes on your humanity.

Riana Elyse Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It felt like if someone was throwing marbles at you or something like that … with just little pings, then there’s the, ‘Oh my gosh, this is it.’ There’s a searing burn, and then there’s an ache.

Carolyn Fong/Redux for CNN

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Then there’s the, ‘Oh my gosh, this is it.’ There’s a searing burn, and then there’s an ache.

Clifford Oto/The Record/AP LaTour

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They waited for hours in the searing heat until she got so sick she had to go to the hospital and was unable to get through the gate, the Taliban has already come to their home, so they don't want to return home.

Seth Moulton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They are searing, they are painful, they are difficult to see, they are difficult to watch, we share a common humanity with these Afghans whose desperation, whose fear, whose concern... they wear it on their faces.

The State Department spokesman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In all my years working for Senator Joe Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period -- not from Ms. Tara Reade, not from anyone. I have absolutely no knowledge or memory of Ms. Reade's accounting of events, which would have left a searing impression on me as a woman professional, and as a manager, these clearly false allegations are in complete contradiction to both the inner workings of our Senate office and to the man I know and worked so closely with for almost two decades.

Marianne Baker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In all my years working for Senator Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period -- not from Ms. Reade, not from anyone. I have absolutely no knowledge or memory of Ms. Reade's accounting of events, which would have left a searing impression on me as a woman professional, and as a manager, these clearly false allegations are in complete contradiction to both the inner workings of our Senate office and to the man I know and worked so closely with for almost two decades.

Marianne Baker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In all my years working for Senator Vice President Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period -- not from Ms. Tara Reade, not from anyone. I have absolutely no knowledge or memory of Ms. Reade's accounting of events, which would have left a searing impression on me as a woman professional, and as a manager, these clearly false allegations are in complete contradiction to both the inner workings of our Senate office and to the man I know and worked so closely with for almost two decades.

Marianne Baker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Despite the result, the fact that this in-person election took place was a searing loss for Wisconsin, wisconsin voters will not forget this travesty.

Ben Wikler

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is brutal. I think the most searing impact is going to be afterwards, the fact that people who lost their loved ones were unable to grieve with them, it's definitely all around us.

Peter King

Found on CNN
4 years ago

who utters words of searing truth among friends; will soon find who his acquaintances were

Assyrian Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Markets usually end in one super-spike, some searing frenzy of activity.

Michael Novogratz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me, i felt this searing pain and thought, ‘ Oh my God, I ’m never going to walk again. ’.

Uma Thurman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me, i felt this searing pain and thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m never going to walk again.

Uma Thurman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I felt this searing pain and thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m never going to walk again,’.

Uma Thurman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me, i felt this searing pain and thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m never going to walk again,’.

Uma Thurman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The scale and types of sexual violence - primarily by Government SPLA forces and affiliated militia – are described in searing, devastating detail, as is the almost casual, yet calculated, attitude of those slaughtering civilians and destroying property and livelihoods.

Al Hussein

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Known for his searing intellect, fiercely competitive spirit, and quick wit, John Heyburn untangled countless legal knots and delivered sweeping legal opinions on cases of incredible complexity.

Mitch McConnell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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