Sample sentences for the GRE study word char

1. char, coal -- (burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything")
2. char, blacken, sear, scorch -- (burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling")

1. char -- (a charred substance)
2. charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman -- (a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write")
3. char, charr -- (any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus)