Sentence examples for parched with from inspiring English sources

Now they are parched with cracked mud.

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

My patient was miserable — parched with thirst, exhausted and jumping up to go to the bathroom every few minutes.

He shot this new movie in Morocco, and the result is convincingly bleached and parched, with piebald cars spraying dust or lining up at gas stations.

On the first day, they were given buckets of water and cups, but not enough, and people grew parched with thirst.

Each time the water recedes, Hyder's characters are left parched with nostalgia, to be quenched only when the river is next in spate.

But with nothing else to do, he was watching them anyway, pacing the parched earth with two panting border collies by his side.

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

It was a ruin, and the garden a parched wilderness with no sign of the pomegranate bush.

The daughter tells me about the journey to Mogadishu — a 200-mile trek across arid, parched land, with adults huddling around children to protect them first.

They suggest blazing heat on a parched plain, with one vulture high overhead (the Kipling landscape), or the camps on Salisbury Plain.