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    parch example sentences

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    1. He sat under the tree for an hour, letting the noon sun burn and parch the earth


    2. parch with thirst, but I the Lord will


    3. He and Parch made a great team


    4. According to the pub’s promotional material, the tale has it that Waxy was heard to comment “such heat does parch a man - a parched man is a barren man - and beer is the only cure


    5. Parch husked seeds on hot stones by the fire


    1. Lucy swallowed, desperate to bring succour to her parched throat


    2. The rolls were just coming off when I went by there, I had several of the heart in parched kalic jelly, the wrap so perfectly toasted, and in a lowland wild thesh


    3. of the boy in the dust, in the rut-dry parched grass,


    4. I've never been interested in drinking for drinking's sake but that liquid was nectar to my parched throat


    5. The dust from the parched and dry earth would surely


    6. He was parched and finally, he stopped


    7. The shade of the trees above were of little help against the rays that burned through the parched leaves and attacked him in many spots


    8. He shook his head and rubbed the back of his neck with a parched, wrinkled hand


    9. water carefully over the man’s parched lips


    10. Penelope was the first to chuckle despite a parched throat, smiling wearily

    11. Dusty grabbed them as fast as they were filled ready to deliver back to their parched owners he came to me first and tossed the full bottle up I thanked him and opened the stopper taking a long swig of the cool water and it was heaven I sighed in recognition of just how wonderful it tasted


    12. The warm water tasted wonderful as we were parched and as we lit our cigarettes these reached the spot as well calming us and tasting nearly as good as the water


    13. ” I licked my lips which were now parched and burning again and then continued


    14. She was only aware of the tumbling motion, the jolt – harsh enough to make her sure she'd suffer bruising – as the car hit the parched ground


    15. They ran through a valley within the parched hills


    16. As the coolness touched his parched lips, he looked at me as though he had just now recognized me


    17. I came to and opened my eyes I was led on the ground and now I was looking up into the blazing sun I don’t know how long I was unconscious but my mouth was parched and I was nearly mad with thirst


    18. I got back to Elijah and held the bottle to his lips while he drank like a parched camel he said


    19. Their skin, though parched, was smooth and young


    20. With fishing rod and basket in hand, he strolled into town on this parched morning, making his way down one of the picturesque side lanes, Chelmsford Mews

    21. “What sustains a couple through ice-enshrined winters and through sultry summers, through the parched deserts and the stormy seas, is an absolute trust in each other, and a friendship which backs each other up without question


    22. “Ah,” said Brubaker, as the first of the Old Milwaukee slid down his parched and eager throat


    23. throat was dry, my lips parched, and I was desperately in need of


    24. He snorted in appreciation before curling his parched tongue into the refreshingly cool water


    25. There it was! The gold nugget rested on the parched bones, and Billy’s glass eye reflected light as though he was looking at them with approval


    26. 17 And Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the


    27. of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses


    28. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water; In the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall


    29. and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in the salt land and not inhabited


    30. “I’m over here,” she said through a parched throat

    31. His equally parched Korean friend had run out of answers


    32. The thirst of nature, the parched earth is relieved by the wet cure,


    33. 15 But he, though parched with thirst, reasoned that a draught reputed of equal value to


    34. 5 Then she gave her maid a bottle of wine, and a cruse of oil, and filled a bag with parched corn, and lumps


    35. Their bodies were lean, and they were parched from hunger and thirst, from fasting and praying, and from their heavy sorrow on account of their transgression


    36. Connor gulped in fear, wetting his parched lips with his slimy tongue, his fiery cherry eyebrows arched in panic


    37. It’s parched up with a mix of words and logic, were you in love at


    38. Mick licked his parched lips


    39. 14 And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that you have brought an offering to your God: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings


    40. 11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day

    41. 14 And Boaz said to her, At mealtime come you hither, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar; And she sat beside the reapers, and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left


    42. Their bodies were lean and they were parched from hunger and thirst from fasting and praying and from their heavy sorrow on account of their transgression


    43. 12 "But now O God I am dead; my flesh is parched with thirst


    44. For dry parched throated


    45. 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto


    46. 15 But he though parched with thirst reasoned that a draught reputed of equal value to blood would be terribly dangerous to his soul


    47. 5 Then she gave her maid a bottle of wine and a cruse of oil and filled a bag with parched corn and lumps of figs and with fine bread; so she folded all these things together and laid them on her


    48. We moistened our parched lips and nodded


    49. A BLAST OF SUN PARCHED AIR, putrid with the smell of aged


    50. When the monsoon fails, it is then that the parched land of my village, Kashipur, clamours for rain to quench its thirst, to keep the bareness at bay and produce some wheat so that I am able to feed my family













































    1. 3 At noon it parches the country, and who can abide the burning heat of it?


    1. Not twenty minutes later, in the middle of Thimble Down the pair strode through the doors of the Bumbling Badger, gasping for water from the parching heat outside


    2. Baked and impasted with the parching streets,


    3. respiratory organs from any parching contact with the air and can


    4. "Many parching summers are come and gone," continued the sage, "since I drank of the water of my own rivers


    5. March! Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are (atitudes!) parching


    6. But for the most part the sunny valley was abandoned and well water for the thirsty men, to bind up the wounds and bury the dead in their own desolate and the untended crops stood in parching fields


    7. If a monsoon does not start at the expected time, or a hot dry summer produces a parching of the earth, take precautions by storing as much water as possible and using it wisely


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    Synonyms for "parch"

    parch sear singe brown toast roast bake desiccate dehydrate wilt shrivel evaporate shrink

    "parch" definitions

    cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat