Sentence examples for parched ground from inspiring English sources

Ten o'clock on a hot, still evening with the dew falling like nectar on parched ground.

And one final factor likely led to the fast growth of the flames: parched ground.

The air rippled with record-setting heat above the parched ground, an illusion of water where water used to be.

Many are dry for years, their waters long since soaked up by the parched ground and left as a chain of water holes.

"We don't fear the Taliban," Mr. Ullah said as he stood on the barren, parched ground surrounding the Tokhi-Abad refugee camp, on the outskirts of Quetta.

Thousands of people in the county remained under evacuation orders after strong winds drove flames across parched ground earlier this week.

Crops wither in the parched earth.

At various venues, Dublin, until 31 October Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ, 1450s An uncannily perfect composition, at once weightless and immensely solid, together with such details as its enigmatic gathering of angelic witnesses, parched white ground and ethereal blue sky make this one of the most beautiful and serious paintings in the world.

The coalition's members — churches, synagogues, mosques and cultural organizations mainly in the Inland Empire — are linked by the spiritual connections between their local desert landscapes and the parched sacred grounds that have nurtured some of the world's great religions.

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.

Places that depend on the runoff from spring snow melt appear particularly vulnerable to climate change, because higher temperatures are making the snow melt earlier, leaving the ground parched by midsummer.