Sentence examples for parched in from inspiring English sources

I looked parched in my face, she said.

Mr. Liu's land has been alternately inundated and parched in the last five years.

These moves are heartening, if only because financial regulation has been so parched in the years since the financial crisis.

Breaded grilled chicken was inedibly dry, and chicken proved just as parched in seafood and chicken paella.

Ms. Leonard's voice gets a bit parched in its upper reaches but is slender, shapely and strong through its range, including low notes that resonate without being heavy.

As the grown-up voice directing her to bed grows more insistent, Livi finally lies down, envisioning herself parched in the desert, offered water from an army-issue canteen.

His enthusiasm, expressed in meandering, enumerative sentences, is intense and catching: "There were light, ethereal lavenders; some were mild and timid; others lush and overbearing; some tart, as if picked from the field and left to parch in large vats of vinegar; others were overwhelmingly sweet.

Half the people and two-thirds of the country's farmland are in the parched north mainly in the Yellow river basin.

The threat of water shortages was brought home to Levi Strauss last year when floods in Pakistan and parched fields in China destroyed cotton crops and sent prices soaring.

Eighty-two per cent of the world's almonds are grown in parched California, most in the Central Valley, which is literally collapsing due to groundwater pumping.

Making matters worse, much of the landscape in California today is already dry and parched, due in part to historic drought and recent wildfires.