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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.
3. In addition to supposedly mimicking "a parched man finally led to water"-- what on earth does this mean?
Alone on the parched plains of Somalia or the Sudan, they lack the strength to lift even a kernel of precious grain.
During summer, the terrain is parched, while at other times of the year it’s often covered with snow.
Altman had me hooked from the credits, in which the camera cruises high above an eerie topography--both parched and veined with swamps--while the composer, Mark Isham, serves up off-the-beat thumps and hollow brass gongs, and fragments of cell-phone conversations remain just on the far side of audibility.