Example sentences for: charred

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

  • That's what La Rochefoucauld said about the old Letterman show when the generic air crash joke Dave told at the 5:30 p.m. taping turned sour by the 12:30 a.m. broadcast, due to an actual air disaster around 9 p.m.: "But if it was now wrong to mock the charred remains of the dead, surely it was wrong a week ago, and would still be wrong a week hence when Dave resumed airline ridicule.

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

  • Australian troops discovered nine charred bodies, the first physical evidence of human rights abuses.

  • 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.

  • 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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