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How to use parching in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word parching? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
In addition, parching scorches off the long barbed ends of the chaff and destroys any detritus left after cleaning.
Late afternoon found the two making their way slowly across the sun-baked earth, moving across shadeless, parching desert, two specks in a vast waste of waterless ground.
The wounded with the parching thirst of haemorrhage upon them called piteously for water.
The closeness of the sea is noticeable, the parching heat of the sun has diminished somewhat.
This parching of soil can also lead to secondary effects, such as the development of unstable winds, tornadoes and other powerful storms.
Occasionally during parching, some seeds would fall into the fire and become charred.
In other regions, such as Crete, the hot, dry summers are accentuated by the parching meltemi, or etesian winds, which become drier as they are drawn southward.
This prevents the occurrence of negative pressure inside the pipeline, suction of impurities into the drippers, thus preventing parching of hoses.
Parching destroys the germ so the seed will not sprout, hardens the kernel, and loosens the tight hull so it can be removed.
Examples from Classical Literature
Then he kneeled and drank at the rill, as if he had been parching in a desert for days.
When we opened the window, the wind blew in on our faces in parching gusts.
What these animals can find to eat in a parching desert is, and remains to me, a mystery.
Followed by Young isham, Rand travelled on by the dusty road, between the parching elder and ironweed, blackberry and love vine.
They also prepare a drink by parching corn and grinding it to powder on the metate, and mixing it with water and a little achote.
This does away with the dust and noxious gas, and modifies the parching heat.
The wagon was a bake-oven, but there was no sweat in him to cool his parching skin.
He gossiped a little about the drought which was parching the rice fields.
He felt a parching thirst, his head was hot, but his limbs were cold.
The atmosphere became dry and surcharged with murky vapor, parching to the skin, and irritating to the eyes.
At least she could breathe freely now and moisten her parching lips.
Her fire was a few chips, and she was parching a little corn for supper.
The rates for parching are a pice a seer or an eighth part of the grain.
And the captain gasped out his last under the palm trees of the isle unnamable while the brown maidens wept about him and fanned the air to his parching lungs.
Frequently, exhausted with fatigue, and dripping with perspiration, they threw themselves upon the snow, and took handfuls of it to allay their parching thirst.
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