parch

“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

Perhaps we, too, are mosses, evolving to the parch of our self-made Mojaves.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 19, 2022

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 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

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

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

What! when thirst parches your jaws, are you solicitous for golden cups to drink out of?

From The Works of Horace by Horace

Among those bracing for impact are shipping companies using the Panama Canal, a chokepoint that is tightening just as shipping is throttled from the Strait of Hormuz to the parched Rhine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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

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

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

While they were eating, teasing, commenting on the soup, flavored with low-growing juniper berries and parched hot summer corn, something happened that disturbed everyone and changed the course of the winter.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

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

On the other hand, when the sponge dries out, it has even more capacity to suck up moisture from the soil and plants below, parching the landscape and turning it into tinder.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2025

The drought has been particularly devastating for European agriculture, which was already suffering from an abnormally dry spring season, parching crops, making it harder to feed livestock and raising worries about reduced harvests.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 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