parch

The parch begins in autumn, just as trees across the region shed their colorful leaves—a highly flammable fuel for wildfires.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 23, 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

The searing heat, blinding sun, and arid winds that parch the throat and can drive sand and grit into the eyes, make the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula a tough place to survive in.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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 parch meal in the oven and bile it and drink the liquor.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration

The unusual intensity of some of the fires across Europe underlines the increasing risk the continent faces as climate change parches vegetation and makes the emergencies more extreme, scientists say.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

The Great Salt Lake has already shrunk by two-thirds, as a broad swath of Utah around it parches.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

Hot, dry weather parches the landscape, creating more fuel to feed fires.

From The Verge ● Aug. 6, 2021

As people move up the slopes a pattern repeats: drought parches the land, turning grass into kindling.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2018

Typhon is Fire, especially the summer heat which dries up the Nile and parches the land.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke

Once the flames escaped, they spread into the rainforest's parched understory, the layer of vegetation growing beneath the taller trees.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The season’s first Santa Ana wind event will begin Wednesday and ramp up Thursday, bringing significant fire risk to parched Los Angeles County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

El Niño is turning the waterway into another chokepoint in a global economy riddled with them, from the Strait of Hormuz to the parched Rhine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

The wet weather will be welcome for parched regions of the UK, but a lot more will be needed before drought conditions start to ease.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

My throat was parched, and my belly growled.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

They are fighting a perilous battle with limited weapons against fires blamed in part on a stronger-than-usual episode of the El Nino climate phenomenon parching Southeast Asia.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

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 Mill fire — one of at least three sizable California wildfires to ignite in the past three days — came as a massive heat wave roasted the West, parching the landscape.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022

In addition, a severe drought is parching Italy.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2022

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