parch

The parch marks show a range of 16th century buildings which had once stood on the National Trust property's Oval Lawn.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

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 William Dean Howells

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

From The Verge ● Aug. 6, 2021

When the chicks are older and the summer sun parches the landscape, she will lead them to higher altitudes for water and cooler temperatures.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2018

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

From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2018

She had gone through the horrors of war, as through a flame that dries up and parches everything it touches, and in the end converts it to dust.

From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez

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

It ignited near a hiking trail in the parched hills just northwest of the city on Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Most of the rain that does eventually fall will be absorbed by the parched ground before it can replenish rivers, exacerbating the problem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Delivering droplets onto the parched crops requires meticulous preparation to identify suitable clouds.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

The same parched sandpapery voice that at one time made me melt into my surfboard.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

A parching lack of rainfall extended the fire season into the normally wet month of January.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

Warm weather already appears to be parching vegetation and making it more flammable, as the many blazes that began over the past few days have shown.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 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

After a summer of record-smashing heat, parching drought, and roaring wildfires, devastating rains fell on the region from October to December, causing flash floods and mudslides that trapped hundreds of people.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2021

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