Most of the crops are brown and parched, with the corn small and underdeveloped.
He shot this new movie in Morocco, and the result is convincingly bleached and parched, with piebald cars spraying dust or lining up at gas stations.
Scientists believe that water once flowed across the planet, but most thought the surface had been largely dry and parched, with planet-wide dust storms, for billions of years.
On the first day, they were given buckets of water and cups, but not enough, and people grew parched with thirst.
Twenty-first-century viewers tune in for detailed instructions on how to craft such dishes as cabbage farce, potted beef, pickled smelts, and parched corn, along with lessons in eighteenth-century hygiene, tobacco, cheese-making, and whiskey toxins.
My patient was miserable — parched with thirst, exhausted and jumping up to go to the bathroom every few minutes.
Several shops allow dogs inside (just be sure to ask first), and your pooch will never be parched with all the large water bowls scattered around outside.
My initial sketches are very apocalyptic, a sky full of smoke and parched land densely populated with oil derricks and pump jacks.
The cracked and parched earth seemed one with the lined and weathered faces of the Depression's victims.
And when he sings, what comes out sounds strained and parched, drained of its usual power, but with a different, rather more difficult kind of potency in its place.
Ms. Carter she also wrote the excellent "Anthony Blunt: His Lives" (2002) relates history on a large canvas here, and it's a story she mostly tells with vigor and parched wit.
