Sample Sentences for
parched
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    "Water," the voice said in a parched, croaking whisper.  (source)
    parched = dry and very thirsty
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    His mouth was as dry and as parched as the lake.  (source)
    parched = dried out
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    The tension in the parched earth eased and vanished.  (source)
    parched = dried out (without adequate water)
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    Our limbs numb with cold despite the running our throats parched, famished, breathless, on we went.  (source)
    parched = dry from thirst
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    Surely there is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain.  (source)
    parching = drying out (or making thirsty)
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    Stella runs out to the parch, with Eunice following to comfort her, simultaneously with the confused voices of the men in the kitchen.†  (source)
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    Here is meat, and this youth can give you corn, parch'd till it be whiter than the upland snow; come on, without fear.†  (source)
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    That only reminded them that they were also parchingly thirsty, without doing anything to relieve them: you cannot quench a terrible thirst by standing under giant oaks and waiting for a chance drip to fall on your tongue.  (source)
    parchingly = in a manner that is excessively dry
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    Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.  (source)
    parched = dry
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    The old and weary voice fell like sweet rain upon his quaking parching heart.†  (source)
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    ...parch, like earth denied rain.  (source)
    parch = dry out
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    Not the Pilot Not the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled; Not the pathfinder penetrating inland weary and long, By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers wet, perseveres till he reaches his destination, More than I have charged myself, heeded or unheeded, to compose march for these States, For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence.†  (source)
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    Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in the present case, however, where the reader is flooded with whole pipes, barrels, quarts, and gills of good gin and good cheer.†  (source)
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