Sentence examples for parched air from inspiring English sources

As I began walking, I discovered that my fingers were cracked and bleeding from the cold, parched air.

Now, the parched air was still cool, the wind off the dunes still a whisper.

We need evaporating nasal mucus to smell, but in the parched cabin air our odour receptors do not work properly, and the effect is that this makes food taste twice as bland.

But what if your parched hair becomes a wreck oceanside?

His eyes were parched from airplane air.

The first is Steven Spurrier, played by Alan Rickman, whose parched low voice and air of beleaguered pomposity are never unwelcome.

I did the same on the flight over, when my skin was grey and parched from dry cabin air.

The top notes in the soundtrack are arid metallic clicks, snips, squeaks and creaks, the chatter of wrenches and wire clippers, as bombs are defused in air so parched as to seem combustible itself.

It is 122 degrees, the heat so profound and air so parched that you only know you sweat if you lean against a railing, or hold something for a few seconds in your hand.

And to her further credit, Alcott noted her thought process in deciding how to speak to -- and what to say to -- those who had been torn open and de-limbed; those who were gasping to "bring blessed air to parched lips in a fuller flow" -- with every breath becoming "a stab" and "finding neither forgetfulness nor ease".

It's harsh there: the air parches your nose, and your arms can burn from a few minutes in the sun.