Sentence examples for very parched from inspiring English sources
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 character is parched and not very likable.
The wonder of the desolate outback is on view in two very different shades this week: pallid and parched in David Michôd's The Rover, and fleshily vibrant in John Curran's marvellous Tracks (Entertainment One UK, 12), a film that got far less than its due in UK cinemas this spring.
My initial sketches are very apocalyptic, a sky full of smoke and parched land densely populated with oil derricks and pump jacks.
We are directed by a man with lots of tattoos and very short shorts down a dirt road though vineyards and parched fields that fractures into a handful of different clearings, used as parking spots, dotted along the coast.
Here are the parched rice grains, which turn a golden brown after being heated (they were very light tan).
Its USP is that it very effectively tackles spots without aggravating redness and inflammation (often even reducing them), or causing the parched discomfort many other spot treatments leave in their wake.
"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.
All morning under a milky sky the waters in the bay had swelled and swelled, rising to unheard-of heights, the small waves creeping over parched sand that for years had known no wetting save for rain and lapping the very bases of the dunes.
Of course, I like a very chilly glass of cider or beer, moisture condensing pleasingly down the side of the glass, as much as the next parched person.
