How to use "blackened" in a sentence

The paper twisted, blackened and turned to ashes

I began to see his face, blackened and exhausted, as no doubt mine was too.

The fires had died down now, but the ruins of broken and burnt-out houses and blackened trees were clear in the cold light of the dawn

Everything was quiet through the afternoon and we started at about five o'clock along the blackened road to Sunbury.

The view of blackened trees and empty ruined buildings made me very unhappy