parching
Example Sentences
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This manifested throughout 2024 in so-called “weird weather,” from unusually extreme hurricanes and floods to intense heat waves, parching droughts and unprecedented wildfires.
From Salon • Dec. 30, 2024
The trend is likely to continue as the climate grows warmer and drier, reducing snowpacks, increasing evaporation and parching soils that absorb runoff.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2022
And with the worst drought in 1,500 years parching the region, water anxiety is at an all-time high.
From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2021
He says the authorities may soon be caught out by La Niña, a sodden period which often follows El Niño’s parching.
From Economist • Apr. 28, 2016
They already had a pile of birds large enough to fill the biggest parching tray, which Angeline had fetched from the camp.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
