Use of the word parching in a sentence example

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When the bed is finished, it is covered with straw to protect it from rain, and also from parching influences. [Please select]

It was a parching day, and the boy very naturally stripped and went in for a bathe, leaving Bukta by the clothes. [Please select]

They gathered a capful of the pinon cones--the seeds of which Lucien knew how to prepare by parching and pounding. [Please select]

Imagine that poor child, Dick, cooped up in a palace, starving and parching herself for fear of poison. [Please select]

The southern sun beat down on Bellerivre, parching its hillsides, and tanning its people to a dusky brown. [Please select]

"Many parching summers are come and gone," continued the sage, "since I drank of the water of my own rivers." [Please select]

Knob of mineral (bitumen) used in polishing the inside of parching vessels, or glazing black during great heat. [Please select]

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