Example sentences for: charred

How can you use “charred” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The charred remains at Knossós and ash at Zákros suggest a great conflagration.

  • These are blessings and curses he wrote on charred or otherwise manipulated bits of paper and sent to friends, enemies, and a few public figures (Hitler, for one) in the late 1930s, in the wake of a disastrous trip he took to Ireland, wielding a cane that he believed was the staff of Saint Patrick, from which he returned in a straitjacket.

  • The evening newspaper Terbit ran a photograph of charred bodies in a burnt-out truck in Dili with a caption saying they had been set alight by Australian troops, whereas the foreign media all reported that they were victims of militia terror.

  • In one massacre, an 11-year-old girl watched her father being marched off and later found his charred body.

  • Griffith's Intolerance juxtaposed with a pencil sketch of the Lincoln Monument and, on the facing page, a photograph of a charred and limbless lynched black male surrounded by smiling whites in coats and ties.


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