parch

Example Sentences

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Now more frequent and more intense, they destroy ground vegetation and parch the earth, which kills the ants and termites that pangolins survive on.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2023

“Griffith cast a malevolent parch over the throats of local fandom by stating that inasmuch as beer never had been sold in his park, it would not now,” The Washington Post reported, sadly.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023

Perhaps we, too, are mosses, evolving to the parch of our self-made Mojaves.

From Scientific American • Nov. 19, 2022

Many have fled, heading to neighboring Iran or living in abject poverty in camps for the displaced within Afghanistan as repeated droughts parch the land and shrivel pastures.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2021

They never got so far as to parch the corn or to bake the potatoes in their caves, but there was the fire, and the draft was magnificent.

From A Boy's Town by Howells, William Dean