The sun couldn't parch him while he was under the trees.

He sat back and gazed out of the car, feeling the hot afternoon air parching his skin.

The corn did not parch well, and was barely edible.

Turtle Heart seemed to wilt and parch as autumn came on.

He grunted in pain, every intake of breath parching his throat.

I was going to parch it and store it.

In dry months, the fierce sun can parch the soil enough to trigger a famine.

Men felt it parch their eyeballs and stood back from trying to breast it.

It would hardly raise the knights' opinion of him, if he spent hours parching lambskin.

The light ahead dazzled her, and the hear swept over her in parching waves.

In a matter of hours, Johnny knew, it would parch their skin and crack their lips.

You let me refresh myself in the brook here, but even so, I sense how my flesh is slowly parching."

Presently, he knew, thirst would begin to parch his throat and hunger to gnaw at him.

In the first case the object is to parch brittle, in the second merely to condense.

"Do you believe it to be part of Sprapter's plan that I must parch to death?"

While most of the rest of the world experiences the global waterfall at least sometimes, the Atacama is left to parch.

Hepburn never asked him to stop drinking, worried perhaps that his sobriety might parch the dependency in which they swam.

Her head ached, and thirst was parching her mouth and throat.

"We did not parch," the female said.

"Don't want to parch up like a raisin.

Men weighed down with rifles and knapsacks, and parching with war.

Never did take to lettin' anybody else parch m' coffee."

Besides, I am starving, and parching with thirst."

North and south they encroached, withering the steppes, parching the valleys, crawling up into the hills.

The corn in its husks was parching I before it ripened and the pasture lands had withered.