parched ,

The current dry season, which will end in about a month, has been one of the most parched on record.

Here on this parched world, it was worth even more than its weight in water.

The ice water felt good going down his parched throat.

It was much more parched than I had anticipated, brown not green.

The words he was about to call died on his suddenly parched lips.

Much the same could be said for the parched breast of chicken.

Rap had to force the words from his parched mouth.

At last, a little rain for this parched corner of the country.

My throat felt parched and this only after one hour in the sun.

At one point he was in an airplane, looking down over parched land and blue sea.

Despite the fluids the doctor had given me, I still felt parched.

But the parched branches were only the top of the plant, and the least interesting part.

Parched fields mean they will have to buy in more feed than they'd like.

The parched lives of women in poor countries were scarcely mentioned.

But the sound need not be quite so parched.

It was the time of growth, between icy night and parched afternoon.

Often her trail went through what she would have called a meadow were it less parched.

The heat from the parched ground came to meet the children as they stepped out of the plane.

My mouth felt parched, as if I'd been smoking all day without taking a single drink.

That being settled, why not do something about my parched throat?

Her voice was harsh now as if coming from a parched throat.

Yes, they'd both come a long way from a little box house with a parched yellow lawn.

Yet already the heat was building, radiating up from the parched ground.

He tries to speak but his throat must be too parched.

My mouth and throat were dry, too parched to speak.