Sentence examples for parched corn from inspiring English sources

The soldiers were living on parched corn.

"He was living like ourselves – on parched corn".

Parched corn glutted with nitrogen from the soil becomes toxic to cows.

Above: In August, rain clouds moved over parched corn fields in Wiley, Colorado.

Indians, however, make much use of atole (corn mush) and pinole (ground parched corn) both of which were aboriginal favourites and are not as popular with the mestizos.

Shortly thereafter, an African-American cook dumped a frying pan full of parched corn on an oil cloth and announced, "Master, dinner ready," Watkins recalled.

Nicaragua has suffered a hurricane and then a drought, which parched the corn and bean patches that sustain most families.

Black beans, chili pepper-spiked hominy (parched, puffed corn, an Indian specialty), salsa, guacamole and sour cream garnished this and other entree plates.

Most of the crops are brown and parched, with the corn small and underdeveloped.

Once again, it is drought time in the northeast of Brazil, with low rainfall painting the landscape hardscrabble beige and green, too parched to sustain the corn, beans and rice that people here depend on to survive.

"Quillagua cannot resist much longer," said Alejandro Sanchez, 77, pointing a cane at a parched, grassless field where he once grew corn and alfalfa.