The midsummer sun parched the earth.
The fierce sun parched the bare earth.
The road parched up with dry weather.
And the parched land be satisfied with rain.
If residents from parched states follow, so much the better.
Green fields are gone now, parched by the sun.
The land in this region is dry and parched.
When applied topically, they can hydrate parched skin.
The sun sets behind a parched tree in Mato Grosso, Midwestern Brazil.
Kenya, a land more than twice the size of Britain, is everywhere parched.
These unusual beauty contests, known as Gerewol, celebrate the fertility the rains bring to the parched edge of the Sahara.
One problem with airplane dining is that parched cabin air quickly evaporates nasal mucus, which helps odor receptors function.
His parched lips parted; the wondrous taste of the cookie was already in his mouth; seemingly bringing him back to life.
A man helps a moran, or young Samburu warrior, drive cattle toward a small borehole dug into a parched riverbed in Archer's Post.
In September, upon that high and arid clayey plain, jutting perilously over the African sea, the melancholy countryside still lay parched from the merciless summer sun;
ON A Saturday night in Canudos, a town of 15, 000 people in the interior of Bahia state surrounded on all sides by parched, silvery forest, there is a lot of consumption going on.
The picture in color on the other side was of a desert broken up by some parched hills without any hint of vegetation or sign of life, the name of the place in characters I could not read.
In recent months, persistent ridges of high pressure have been driving storms away from the south central United States, leaving that region parched while drenching others with unusually heavy rain.
Within my heart, the climate seemed as parched of rain as this leaden sky, for a long time not a single tear of tenderness had fallen from my arid eyes.
