How to Use parch in a Sentence

parch

verb
Definition of parchnext
Synonyms for parchnext
  • With the ground parched, the trees produced a smaller crop.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The sun sizzles from the sky, parching the Chihuahuan Desert.
    — Pam Leblanc, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Jan. 2023
  • At the same time, an uptick of hotter, drier years are set to parch the system.
    — Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, 17 Sep. 2019
  • April showers brought the flowers, but May was parched.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2023
  • All that parched brush worked like kindling and soon the endless pines began to be set ablaze.
    — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2023
  • The swamp was parched by drought when a lightning strike April 6 sparked a rapidly growing fire.
    — Washington Post, 12 June 2017
  • Then, a bone-dry second half of the year and sparse early winter snow left the landscape parched.
    — Time, 22 Aug. 2023
  • When droughts parch the land, or mudslides take entire farms and crash them into ravines, or floods drown the crops?
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Mar. 2022
  • In turn, over the years, the sound has also come to symbolize the shift in my skin from oily-in-the-t-zone to completely parched.
    — Dianna Mazzone, Allure, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The 3- to 8-inch ears make firm little morsels when popped, but can also be parched, ground into meal, and more.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 14 July 2023
  • If that deficit is cranked up for a long time, soils and vegetation will parch.
    — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 17 Sep. 2020
  • But the region’s dams are aging and drought-parched, and its coal plants are slated to retire.
    — WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Their bodies were bent under the weight of their belongings and their lips were cracked and parched from thirst.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
  • But the 21st century has parched a lot of thirst for MLB franchises.
    — John Smallwood, Philly.com, 21 Aug. 2017
  • When you're parched in the wilderness, Jared Leto is (apparently) here to quench your thirst.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The same could be said for the quarter chicken ($10), which presented us with a large, smoked bone-in breast that was parched for one of the five sauces on hand.
    — Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The Po River valley, usually lush and rich in rice, is parched.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • After a summer of sun, sand, and that long-haul flight to Tokyo, your skin probably feels parched.
    — Margaux Anbouba, ELLE, 7 Aug. 2023
  • But large stretches of the riverbed usually sit parched beside the farmlands.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Beyond that just parched red earth stretching for miles until, looming in the distance, the peak that Paris is pointing to.
    — Nurith Aizenman, NPR, 12 May 2024
  • Each breath of dry air sucks moisture from your airways, which can leave your nose and throat parched and more prone to irritation.
    — TIME, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Less than two inches of rain falls in the valley on average each year, leaving the plants and animals that live there parched.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The liquid goes on like a velvet gloss, dries to a transfer-proof matte that endures through multiple meals and, thrillingly, doesn’t parch the lips in the process.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • The landscape was parched and the wind was fierce, and over the next few days the modest blaze exploded into a raging conflagration.
    — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Parts of the Andes Mountains and foothills down to the coast have been parched by an unprecedented 10-year dry spell that has cut some river flows by up to 80 percent.
    — Bob Berwyn, ExpressNews.com, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The drought that has parched the area for years, said Mr. Nichols, a former Harney County commissioner, is abating.
    — Kirk Johnson, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Trying to keep an entire soccer team from getting parched?
    — Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The fridge, too, is in use: there’s an amazing shot of Nemo, parched and desperate, inserting his head into the icebox and licking the chilly moisture from the sides.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Red-eye flights, new climates, and lots of time spent outdoors all increase your risk for tired and puffy eyes, parched skin and hands, cracked lips, and dangerous sunburns.
    — Talia Ergas, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Humidifiers can make dry climes and winters less...parched.
    — Popular Science, 31 Jan. 2020

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