Charred [verb]

The torn bread develops a mix of crispy and soft textures as the fat renders onto it before a quick run under the broiler, which also adds an enticing kiss of char to the potatoes.

Charred beams and blackened walls showed stark and gaunt in the glow of a smoldering mass of wreckage.

And when Henry found her, she was just rolling the charred balls out onto the flat stones.

Eusebius speaks of the charred remains of Polycarp as more precious than the richest jewels, and more tried than gold.

Then he took a match and burned the original drawing until it was but charred black ashes.

I had expected to find quantities of charred black paper, with possibly some fragments of binding, and was quite incredulous.

Black Hoof selected a charred stick from the fire and stood staring at us, his eyes blank as though he did not see us.

The charred stick hovered over her white face, then was withdrawn and darted at mine.

It was a strange grave for the charred remains of two men who yesterday had been full of life.

The oldest Roman books of this sort that have been preserved were found in Herculaneum, badly charred and broken.