How to Use blackened in a Sentence

blackened

adjective

• On Wednesday, the few people out on the streets walked quietly past the blackened car hulks and smashed homes.
  — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
• Three blackened fish tacos ($16), served with rice and beans, were fine but nothing out of the ordinary.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2018
• Al-Kolak placed a blackened kettle atop the makeshift stove and dropped a few Lipton teabags inside it.
  — Patrick Strickland, The New York Review of Books, 4 Mar. 2020
• Watermelon and pineapple can take to a hot grill the same way that a piece of steak will, with a blackened seer that takes in the charcoal flavor.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 9 July 2018
• In the blackened chimney, the only remains of a house in Paradise after the Camp fire, Shane Grammar saw the canvas for his first mural in the town.
  — Julia Wick, latimes.com, 18 June 2019
• A pair of blue underwear and the remnants of a pair of blue jeans, as well as a .38-caliber bullet casing, were found inside the blackened store.
  — Richard Winton, latimes.com, 19 May 2017
• In 2009, her team was scouring Teardrop's margin to collect blackened plant matter spit out by the shrinking glacier.
  — Daniel Ackerman, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2019
• In 2009, her team was scouring Teardrop’s margin to collect blackened plant matter spit out by the shrinking glacier.
  — Daniel Ackerman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2019
• Fulfill your summer goth fantasy for less with Maneater, a blackened plum.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 13 July 2017
• How about a blackened fish fillet with lobster whipped mashed potatoes, lobster béchamel cream sauce with fresh fennel and fresh corn -- all topped with crispy fried onion rings.
  — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• Using a paper towel, remove blackened skin and discard seeds, then dice poblanos.
  — Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 25 July 2018
• Video on the state television channel ENTV showed a blackened hulk broken into pieces, with huge wheels scattered about along with other plane parts.
  — Bloomberg.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• The outages turned urban highways dark and blackened shopping malls once glittering with light.
  — Janie Har, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
• Towering flames devoured trees and brush in what was once dense jungle, leaving behind a blackened wasteland of charred stumps and bushes.
  — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2019
• The contrast is quite pleasurable: Sweet, milky mozzarella meets slightly bitter radicchio, still a bit warm, blackened and smoky from high heat.
  — David Tanis, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• Symbolic candles flicker and strands of yellow melted wax drip over blackened rocks.
  — Norma Meyer, Orange County Register, 7 June 2017
• Dinner was delicious: dish after dish of blackened shrimp, fried shrimp, catfish, garlic corn.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2021
• As dawn broke over a blackened landscape Sunday, a picture emerged of disaster of unprecedented scale.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2020
• Video images from the Kamuna camp in Idlib showed smoke billowing from rows of tattered and blackened tents as well as a pickup truck packed with wounded people moaning and crying.
  — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 5 May 2016
• Workers could be seen inspecting the blackened transformer Sunday.
  — Ben Poston, latimes.com, 9 July 2017
• One crane that officials had been referring to as Charlie landed on Rampart Street — standing straight up — the blackened end visible where the explosives had been placed.
  — Rebecca Santana, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2019
• Texas Black Gold Garlic puts its signature garlic through a two-month fermenting process, turning traditional white cloves into sweet blackened treats.
  — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• On a visit to the Wadi Hajar neighborhood of western Mosul in April, just a month after it was recaptured, shopkeepers were repainting their blackened storefronts even as gunfire and explosions erupted a few blocks away.
  — Tommy Trenchard, Newsweek, 27 June 2017

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