Example sentences for: scorching

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

  • Only a light breech-cloth covers their hips and thick-soled shoes protect their feet from the scorching rocks and steaming rills of water.

  • At an altitude of more than 640 meters (2,100 feet), this city on the Castilian plateau, Europe’s highest capital, is scorching in summer, when wilting residents flee for the coast or cooler northern climes, and freezing in winter, when many Madrileños bolt for the Sierra Nevada, just a couple hours south, to ski.

  • The nation's heat wave continues to get coverage, with for instance, a WP front-pager under the cobwebby headline SCORCHING HEAT WAVE WON'T LET UP and a NYT op-ed reminding us that this is nothing compared to the Egyptian drought of 2180 B.C.

  • When you set out for the higher altitudes, be prepared for cold with damp mists, or for scorching sunshine.Either condition is possible.

  • With daytime temperatures rarely dropping below the high sixties and almost continuous sunshine, it makes a welcome retreat from the drab northern European winters, and a scorching alternative to temperate summers.


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