| 1. | Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | We moistened the parched lips, and the patient quickly revived. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | His mouth twitched, and his parched tongue seemed unable to articulate. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 4. | A sigh of relief broke from his parched lips, and the colour came back to his cheeks. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 5. | To make his bleak winds kiss my parched lip. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | I feel yet parched with horror, nor can I reflect on that terrible moment without shuddering and agony. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 7. | "Good night," answered the young man, passing up the steps and wiping his parched mouth with a handkerchief. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 8. | Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 9. | His heart began to sink within him he endeavored to resume his psalm tune, but his parched tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, and he could not utter a stave. - from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |