The summer heat parched the vegetable garden. From LearnThat.org.
Growing populations are straining supplies in parched areas of the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [High-Tech Cures for Water Shortages] Reference
In fact, the startling abundance of fruit in parched Kandahar was what had first led me to consider beauty products. From Wordnik.com. [Scents & Sensibility] Reference
Catty, my liquidity may be best described as parched, or even dessicated. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » I dips me lid to Lord Bob of Nowhere.] Reference
"You've cheated me!" said Bai with a kind of parched hoarseness, as though her throat had been rubbed raw. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
Coffee giv 'out an none could be bought so they took okra seeds an' parched 'em good an 'brown an' ground 'em an 'made coffee out'n' em. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference
As the grain parched, I stirred it with a stick. From Wordnik.com. [Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden] Reference
We had various substitutes, such as parched rye, also okra seed. From Wordnik.com. [Documenting the American South, or, the American Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference
Heb. haran, i.e., "parched;" or probably from the Accadian charana, meaning "a road.". From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
The long walk had taken its toll on me and I was parched. From Wordnik.com. [Panthera pardus] Reference
His purpose, he said, was to give life to a parched land. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy Of Dam Architect Floyd Dominy] Reference
Dry tongues of heat licked at the parched skins of people. From Wordnik.com. [Bicycle Boys] Reference
Others stand guard on the surrounding parched brown hills. From Wordnik.com. ['It's War Now'] Reference
The rains will fall, quenching the thirst of this parched land. From Wordnik.com. [Veld fire] Reference
Forest fires across the parched country have killed 34 people. From Wordnik.com. [Fires, Dying Grain Beset Russia] Reference
Waved me off and sat back down beside that tiller, parched and rusty. From Wordnik.com. [THE BOATMAN OF THE BADLANDS] Reference
The water was a relief for DiChiara, who was parched from her burns. From Wordnik.com. [The Day That Changed America] Reference
Unfortunately even a good soaking won't fill up these parched aquifers. From Wordnik.com. [Can I use water and be green?] Reference
The low bass gave way to dry tears, long since parched from their source. From Wordnik.com. [Wife Beater T] Reference
But the thieves probably weren't parched party-goers, according to police. From Wordnik.com. [200 bags of ice stolen from Va. store] Reference
When she opens her eyes the men are staring into her parched, wide, mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Jew] Reference
His parched brownish skin was thick and creased with deep vertical striations. From Wordnik.com. [Fasting to a Comfortable Death] Reference
Outside, the main stage's vaguely leftfield indie wafted over the parched grass. From Wordnik.com. [Truck festival] Reference
And to make matters worse, my mouth had grown parched with an overwhelming thirst. From Wordnik.com. [A Body Divided, 3] Reference
Amy gently pushes back the houseplant leaves and pours water onto the parched dirt. From Wordnik.com. [Neighbors] Reference
As fewer people shoot for sport, profits are drying up quicker than the parched river. From Wordnik.com. [Clouds Over Gun Valley] Reference
But my vision was sometimes blurry, and I was parched and famished nearly all the time. From Wordnik.com. [A Healing Blog] Reference
Like a blind parched snake, the trunk searches and slurps at the fresh drink in your hand. From Wordnik.com. [Elephant] Reference
He has decided to sow just 8,000 hectares, or about 20,000 acres, of drought-parched soil. From Wordnik.com. [Wheat, and Concern, Sowed as Russia Takes to Fields] Reference
These birds occupy small, parched islands, on which perennial drought severely limits vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Newton: Darwin Was Not Wrong--New Study Being Distorted] Reference
Goats and camels foraged in parched scrub and low acacia bushes, often wandering across the road. From Wordnik.com. [Oman's desert island] Reference
Many hard decisions, on Ethiopia's parched plains and in its government offices, are still to come. From Wordnik.com. [Hunger In The Horn] Reference
China has one-fifth as much water per person as the U.S., and crippling shortages in its parched north. From Wordnik.com. [The Struggle For Asia's Water Begins] Reference
Left, a farmer stood on his parched paddy field in Ranga Reddy district, near Hyderabad, India, September 30, 2009. From Wordnik.com. [Monsoon's Bounty] Reference
You might also see volunteers pulling bucket-laden red wagons along the street to bring sustenance to parched trees. From Wordnik.com. [Love of trees in the District seems to be at a high point] Reference
"Only the gods in heaven can do such things," he shouted back, his voice hoarse and parched from no water for two days. From Wordnik.com. [The Cry of Freedom] Reference
He was not sure where to go to find Isabella, but another need was also persisting in his mind; he was parched and needed some water. From Wordnik.com. [Begonia {part six}] Reference
The letter, in its quiet avoidance of any reference to recent events, was like cooling rain falling upon a parched and thirsty earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Instead there was only the sharp stinging of bleach from my hair-clogged washbasin and the stainless, parched odor of unwashed fabric. From Wordnik.com. [Who Lives on Barriedale Road?] Reference
My limbs seemed on fire, and while great drops of perspiration fell from my face, my throat and tongue were literally parched with thirst. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
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