Sherman's scorched earth policy.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The scorched blouse tore easily.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used without object) : Milk scorches easily. ,The car scorched along the highway.    From Dictionary.com. 

They also have to be personally and professionally destroyed in scorched-earth fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » If You Want to Get Things Done, Use Reconciliation] Reference

Each battered plate of bark is the size of a dinosaur 's scale, some of them scorched from a long-ago fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Tree-Hugging to New Heights] Reference

"They engage in scorched-earth litigation tactics to get plaintiffs to take toothless settlements," Verheyden-Hilliard said.    From Wordnik.com.  [From 2007 to 2009, D.C. paid more than $50 million in legal settlements] Reference

This in scorched earth stuff and on the other side the Ashcroft money is being switched to the new marginals in operation Landslide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labour Play The Race Card Again] Reference

Would she risk what many people will call a scorched earth policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 31, 2008] Reference

Is it meet for any work -- "it," that is, the scorched part still remaining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

It is called a scorched earth policy, which I assume was always part of the communist armoury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

And so I think that has been the reason for the hesitation to sort of do the so-called scorched earth attacks on -- on Barack Obama, Glenn.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2008] Reference

As in scorched earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nelson prolife amendment tabled: Nelson (D, NE) caving to follow. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference

Clinton has never engaged in the kind of scorched earth campaign that Obama has.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Defends Obama From McCain's Hamas Attack] Reference

He had felt "scorched" for days afterward, and he had never again made the attempt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Widows and Orphans] Reference

The kind of scorched earth strategy by McCain is not about convincing voters to vote for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 10/6/08] Reference

To hang on after that -- in some kind of scorched-earth campaign -- will severely damage her reputation and future prospects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Hillary Advisers Worry About Staying In Past New Hampshire; Others Urge Her To Fight On] Reference

I actually think that Dover has been such a monumental crisis for them that the DI is switching over to a kind of scorched earth policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Texas Academy of Science statement on Pianka - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Tooth said "a relatively small percentage" of vineyards had so far been "scorched".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It's one of the best examples we've seen of the kind of scorched-earth politics this so-called.    From Wordnik.com.  [ConsumerFreedom.com Headlines] Reference

But if you use high heat, outer egg protein may be "scorched" while the inner egg content egg yolk may be still cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [foodconsumer.org] Reference

Also, two of the four copper male pins on the fuel pump relay were not "scorched" but definitely a very different shade of copper.    From Wordnik.com.  [NASIOC] Reference

It is called scorched earth policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Can Republicans Put Country Before Party?] Reference

"scorched", i.e., the colour produced by the influence of the sun's rays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

"scorched" along the cycle-path as dangerously near the speed-limit as is the custom of boys in bright-colored sweaters to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Dazzler] Reference

Go high road in the East or scorched earth in the West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Look Now] Reference

Sleek, yes, but it scorched my hands on a recent hot day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Road Test: Volvo C70] Reference

Neighboring buildings have become scorched, crumbling stumps.    From Wordnik.com.  [RULES OF ENGAGEMENT] Reference

Others say they will move away, leaving scorched earth behind them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarajevo On The Spot] Reference

Kiva 1, which was scorched by the wildfire last May, is the most directly endangered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plagues Of Los Alamos] Reference

Fittingly, those same scorched-earth tactics are now creating headaches for Republicans.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Say We Want A Revolution] Reference

Gingrich's scorched-earth tactics have infected the Senate, and not just on health care.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Ain’t No Friend of Mine] Reference

Over the past 10 years, Russia's military has had a scorched-earth strategy toward Chechnya.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suicide Bombers Can Be Stopped] Reference

The hundreds of fires that have ravaged Florida since Memorial Day have scorched 300,000 acres.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fire This Time] Reference

Get ready for a scorched-earth campaign from the Bushies, beginning with tonight's debate in St. Louis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: Scorched-Earth Strategy] Reference

By the time Argentina, Yugoslavia and Spain had scorched them, the U.S.A. had to settle for a mortifying sixth place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best In Sports] Reference

Only one and a half walls still stand; slabs of scorched concrete cast shadows across a floor littered with broken red bricks.    From Wordnik.com.  [A War's Hidden Tragedy] Reference

Only one-and-a-half walls still stand; slabs of scorched concrete cast shadows across a floor littered with broken red bricks.    From Wordnik.com.  [A War's Hidden Tragedy] Reference