parched

Example Sentences

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She had been strolling down the Walk of Fame, parched after taking a three-hour guided tour of Los Angeles, when the bright red store colors caught her eye.

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She shifted haphazardly back into a girl, her throat suddenly parched.

From Literature

Now those former hay fields sit dry, with weeds poking through the parched soil.

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It had been about six decades since downtown was this parched.

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That’s not just from the recent storms — early-season rains tend to soak into the parched ground — but also because California is building on three prior wet winters, state climatologist Michael Anderson said.

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