How to Use parch in a Sentence

parch

verb

• The hot desert sun had parched the land.
• With the ground parched, the trees produced a smaller crop.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• The sun sizzles from the sky, parching the Chihuahuan Desert.
  — Pam Leblanc, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Jan. 2023
• At the same time, an uptick of hotter, drier years are set to parch the system.
  — Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, 17 Sep. 2019
• April showers brought the flowers, but May was parched.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2023
• While my nose and forehead were as slippery as ever, the rest of my skin was parched.
  — Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 24 Jan. 2024
• All that parched brush worked like kindling and soon the endless pines began to be set ablaze.
  — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2023
• The swamp was parched by drought when a lightning strike April 6 sparked a rapidly growing fire.
  — Washington Post, 12 June 2017
• Then, a bone-dry second half of the year and sparse early winter snow left the landscape parched.
  — Time, 22 Aug. 2023
• When droughts parch the land, or mudslides take entire farms and crash them into ravines, or floods drown the crops?
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Mar. 2022
• In turn, over the years, the sound has also come to symbolize the shift in my skin from oily-in-the-t-zone to completely parched.
  — Dianna Mazzone, Allure, 29 Nov. 2023
• The 3- to 8-inch ears make firm little morsels when popped, but can also be parched, ground into meal, and more.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 14 July 2023
• If that deficit is cranked up for a long time, soils and vegetation will parch.
  — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 17 Sep. 2020
• But the region’s dams are aging and drought-parched, and its coal plants are slated to retire.
  — WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
• The heat not only parched vegetation but sapped the moisture from the air in many places.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2024
• The water-rich vegetable will go bad much more quickly if it gets parched.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2024
• Their bodies were bent under the weight of their belongings and their lips were cracked and parched from thirst.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
• But the 21st century has parched a lot of thirst for MLB franchises.
  — John Smallwood, Philly.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• The heavy rain in Mexico is, in some ways, a blessing—the area has recently been parched.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 20 June 2024
• When you're parched in the wilderness, Jared Leto is (apparently) here to quench your thirst.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• The same could be said for the quarter chicken ($10), which presented us with a large, smoked bone-in breast that was parched for one of the five sauces on hand.
  — Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 16 Aug. 2017
• The Po River valley, usually lush and rich in rice, is parched.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• After a summer of sun, sand, and that long-haul flight to Tokyo, your skin probably feels parched.
  — Margaux Anbouba, ELLE, 7 Aug. 2023
• But large stretches of the riverbed usually sit parched beside the farmlands.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Beyond that just parched red earth stretching for miles until, looming in the distance, the peak that Paris is pointing to.
  — Nurith Aizenman, NPR, 12 May 2024
• Each breath of dry air sucks moisture from your airways, which can leave your nose and throat parched and more prone to irritation.
  — TIME, 24 Jan. 2024
• Less than two inches of rain falls in the valley on average each year, leaving the plants and animals that live there parched.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
• The liquid goes on like a velvet gloss, dries to a transfer-proof matte that endures through multiple meals and, thrillingly, doesn’t parch the lips in the process.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• The landscape was parched and the wind was fierce, and over the next few days the modest blaze exploded into a raging conflagration.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• No matter the season, my hair and skin are chronically parched, and living in Los Angeles doesn’t help my efforts to find the best products for dry hair and skin.
  — Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024