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Example sentences for: parched

How can you use “parched” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The charge is leveled, and like a parched man finally led to water, Mr. Gottlieb keeps drinking and drinking.
The longest river in the world brings abundant water from the heart of Africa to irrigate a narrow verdant valley snaking its way through the hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of parched desert that constitute the modern state.
3. In addition to supposedly mimicking "a parched man finally led to water"-- what on earth does this mean?
It is exempt from state and local taxes, so it escapes having to pay an estimated $300 million a year into the parched District treasury.
On the doorstep of this wealth, the Thar Desert of noble Rajasthan heralds the vast Deccan plateau of parched, ruddy granite that dominates the peninsula of southern India.