Caused by incendiaries, the fire scorched the courthouse and left it a brown color.
Pray heaven that we do not have a war, but if we have a war we shall be operating in friendly country which will not have been scorched.
They have experienced two world wars, and the scorched earth policy has been applied several times.
I have also heard descriptions of the scorched earth policy.
They are scorching the earth in their humiliating defeat.
The faith of our fathers will sustain us however scorching the fire may be.
He will be scorched at the mere thought of the shame of the disclosure.
We all know what attack would mean, followed afterwards perhaps by what is known as the scorched earth policy.
