parch
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Meanwhile, at Portchester Castle in Hampshire, the warm conditions have led to parch marks revealing the outline of a Tudor storehouse.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
“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
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
You want coffee, you put de skillet on de fire and put de meal in it and parch it till it most black, and put water on it.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. 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
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
As climate change parches more areas of the U.S., wildfires are increasing in frequency, and their season is starting earlier and lasting longer.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2016
There, as I have shown, it probably indicates the Maya word choco, “heat, warmth,” alluding to the hot, dry season which parches and shrivels up the growing corn.
This year, however, the exceptionally dry summer faced by some parts of the country has left trees parched.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
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
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
Somehow she got possession of all the seed-corn and parched it before the men went out for the sowing, so that, of course, there was no harvest at all.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
It is a remarkable reversal from 2021, the season of scorching temperatures and parching drought that devastated farms throughout Western Canada.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 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
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