How to Use parched in a Sentence

parched

adjective
  • Could I have some water? I'm parched.
  • Trees die en masse, setting the parched and arid state up to burn.
    — Tessa Love, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2019
  • But a scorching rinse may be making your face even more parched.
    — Jessica Cruel, SELF, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The smell when the first raindrops hit the parched soil, kicking up dust.
    — Jeremy White, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • But in recent years, Corkscrew sees more than three parched months a year.
    — Mac Stone, National Geographic, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Winds were whipping, the rainy season was late, and the ground was parched.
    — Dianna M. Náñez, azcentral, 22 July 2019
  • The dry air left us parched, and in this small race, there were few fluid stations.
    — Andrew W. Lehren, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • In its place are polluted ponds and vast stretches of parched sand.
    — Kevin Monahan, NBC news, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The trees store water, which is useful in such a parched region.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • As the sun beat down, a group of skinny kids kicked soccer balls across a field of parched grass.
    — Kate Linthicum, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • By mid-June the monsoon rains should be quenching the parched ground.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • Thirty-foot cliffs began to rise up and the landscape turned parched.
    — Andrew McCarthy, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Dust spinning around her legs, the strong-willed 16-year-old looked to the parched sky.
    — Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Half of the plots were well watered and green; the other half were parched and yellow.
    — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The grape vines appeared out of nowhere, tucked into a fold between two parched slopes.
    — Saki Knafo, Smithsonian, 5 May 2017
  • The city’s reservoirs and lakes are parched and its wells have run dry after two years of scanty rains here.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
  • The city's reservoirs and lakes are parched and its wells have run dry after two years of scanty rains here.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2019
  • The team of six was rushing to collect samples while the parched ground changed around them.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2023
  • That’s enough to have built 10 large water reservoirs in the parched state.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The once bustling area is now surrounded by parched soil, with many boathouses high and dry.
    — Fabiano Maisonnave, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Water shortages have left front yards and the sharp hills that surround the city a parched, dusty tan.
    — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2022
  • This bad habit can magnify a range of skin issues, and can leave your skin red, flaky and parched.
    — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Not just the Blues but other sports franchises are no longer parched.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2019
  • As signs of change reach our lengths, only the best hair oil formulas will do to keep parched strands quenched.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The horses congregate on vast stretches of land, once green and lush, now dry and parched.
    — Andrew Craft, Fox News, 17 May 2018
  • Around you the parched land and empty sky point less to the idea of death and more to labors in the afterlife.
    — Fred Marchant, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But despite the parched landscape and the harshness of the sea, the place felt welcoming.
    — Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The same sentiment holds across much of the parched American west.
    — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The soils across the watershed remain parched and will soak up some of the melting snow this spring and summer.
    — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2019
  • In the parched north of the country, rivers are running dry and millions of livestock have perished due to lack of food.
    — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023

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