Exempel på parch

• As the smoke wafts my way, my nostrils begin twitching, my throat becomes parched, and my resulting cough wakes me up.

• A typical group of parasynonyms contains: sweltering and breathless; parched; burning; searing and sear; scorching, scorched, and scorcher;, and roasting, roaster.

• For the purposes of recording and interpretation, parch marks are regarded as a specialised sub-category of crop mark.

• To-day some of the great municipalities bring water scores of miles through areas which are parched in a dry season.

• When he talks of this prairie as being parched, there are two sides to that question.

• At all events we know that the prairie is parched.

• It would go no way at all towards quenching the thirst of the parched.

• I do not pretend that you might not drop these matches safely when the ground is not parched, or when there is not so much inflammatory material about.

• Yet the sun remains unmoving in the sky, parching and burning all the ground beneath.

• They are still involved in their traditional occupation of grain parching.

• In aerial photographs parch marks are clearly visible across the nearby countryside and indicate the original route of the line.

• When the air returns to sea level on the other side of the mountains, it recompresses, warms and dries, parching the deserts.

• This hot wind blows strongly, often for several days at a time, defying all attempts to keep the dust down, and parching all vegetation.

• There is also an outer transverse series of four black spots on the orange parch in interspaces 2 to 5.

• What unites the two communities is their traditional occupation, which was grain parching.