1.   Bates plays Kushnick with shrill, profane gusto, literally scorching the earth with her incendiary lungs.

2.   Half way across the site, the earth is scorched, and the remnants of dwellings bear witness to a horrendous fire.

3.   For over five kilometres they had seen debris and signs of an ancient fireball which had scorched the earth.

4.   He scorched the earth of the CIA.

5.   The story here is of an America at play in the fields of the Lord, until the Lord looks down and decides to scorch the earth.

6.   There was no good reason to scorch our earth.

7.   They say that after the earth is scorched the soil becomes more fertile, and that after your head is shaved the hair grows back fuller.