Sentence examples for parched town from inspiring English sources

A gentle, closeted gay man, he brings light to Carthage, gracing the parched town with culture and refinement.

Its curiosity is confined to the parched town called Beatty in Nevada, a state where prostitution is legal.

Ending nearly two months of frantic work, residents watched as water flowed to this parched town today through a 21-mile pipeline.

"A Million Heavens," Brandon's new novel, takes place in a parched town on the outskirts of Albuquerque.

Set in a parched town on the outskirts of Albuquerque, Brandon's third novel alternates among a handful of unmoored men and women (and a disconsolate wolf), all of them tethered to the story of Soren, an unlikely piano prodigy lying in a coma on the sixth floor of a medical clinic.

In those parched towns, and in the ones that are drying up now, summer is going to be hell, and September will be worse.

Anti-bullet train signs adorned flat fields the whole way, in between gas plazas, abandoned shacks, fast food clusters and teeny parched towns with paper-thin dwellings right out of The Grapes of Wrath.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Aug. 9 — On the last day of her life, Patricia Miller-Razor did the same things she did just about every other day in this sun-parched town, even as the temperature climbed.

But if you're not living in a community dependent on bottled water rations, farming land that's projected to lose $800 million in crop revenue or watching raging wildfires ravage your drought-parched town, the historic California drought may still feel like little more than a headline.

When extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy batter coastlines or extended heat waves leave cities and towns parched, some climate justice activists have sought to find a silver lining amidst the grime news.

The novel is set in Desperance, a town of red, parched earth and roaring rivers not unlike the rough outback town of Cloncurry, where Wright grew up.