Sentence examples for parched environment from inspiring English sources
The Museum of Modern Art lives in Queens now, and so do a disproportionate number of artists, writers, dancers and musicians -- including the novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, who is only the latest in a long list of Washington-spawned talents (from Duke Ellington to Paul Taylor) who fled the capital's culturally parched environment to reach full bloom in the enriching concrete of New York.
Carbon-dating of her teeth and isotope data from crystals that formed on her bones helped study authors determine that the girl lived 12,000 to 13,000 years ago in what would have been a very parched environment.
The great Atacama Desert stretches along the Pacific coast from northern Chile and along coastal Peru nearly to the border with Ecuador; rare, but occasional, rainfall interrupts the barrenness of this parched, hostile environment permitting infrequent but noteworthy incursions of mosquitoes and epizoodemic VEE virus (4 ).
This brutal environment contributes to the parched, exhausted feeling you get after you fly.
Farmers will be allowed to take up more groundwater to irrigate parched crops during the ongoing heatwave, after a "drought summit" between farming leaders and the environment secretary, Michael Gove.
"It was a very different environment from the badlands of today," Zelenitsky says, looking out at the moonscape of parched cliffs, deep coulees, and strange tower-like hoodoos.
A lament for parched, poisoned nature recurs in The Crying Light, though his self-excoriation goes beyond facile regrets about the environment.
Others are positively parched.
Parched oil-field roughnecks?
