Examples:

• The retreating army adopted a scorched-earth policy.
• However, that changed once Germans started retreating and leaving scorched earth behind.
• This policy was known as scorched earth and it was not expected by the Germans and severely hindered their armies.
• Tiberius had pursued a policy of scorched earth to starve the Pannonians.
• He instituted a scorched earth policy, devastating each area before he evacuated it.
• To fatigue the Ottomans, Stephen had instituted a policy of scorched earth.
• Her power flooded through the scorched earth in a soothing wave of relief.
• Scorched earth Republican primaries will lead directly to an Al Gore presidency,
• Basically the tasks accounted for the implementation of a scorched earth policy.
• Those people are gone now, although their legacy of scorched earth remains.
• The unreaped corn was scorched and shed its grain.
• Scorched earth Republican primaries will lead directly to an Al Gore presidency.