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  • adjective Not scorched.

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Examples

  • Later in life he walks the white sands of the Caribbean, his head down, asks his daughter, why do I walk unscorched ground.

    Burn Christian Bell 2011

  • When we arrived (safely and unscorched) in New York, my wife called the Transportation Security Administration.

    July 2007 2007

  • He had not burned away to ash, but sat unscorched in the sunlight, and the pale skin of his face and arms and hands was entirely unmarked.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • When we arrived (safely and unscorched) in New York, my wife called the Transportation Security Administration.

    Fly the Terrifying Skies 2007

  • He had not burned away to ash, but sat unscorched in the sunlight, and the pale skin of his face and arms and hands was entirely unmarked.

    City of Ashes Cassandra Clare 2008

  • How it came there, undisfigured and unscorched by gunpowder, and how this crime came to be so clumsily and strangely committed, it is impossible to discover.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • In unscorched fields horses and cattle still fed peacefully.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • As I have come out unscorched from the last fiery furnace which has been heated for me by my enemies seven times hot, so shall I escape from that other fire with which the poor man who has gone from us endeavoured to envelop me.

    Phineas Redux 2004

  • They should be lauded and admired, like David Stern of the NBA a guy who makes mistakes like Selig but who keeps a respected, unscorched image.

    USATODAY.com - Selig proves importance of good leadership 2002

  • They should be lauded and admired, like David Stern of the NBA a guy who makes mistakes like Selig but who keeps a respected, unscorched image.

    USATODAY.com - Selig proves importance of good leadership 2002

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