In need of balm, maybe

Usage examples of chapped.

She has given her three pairs of shoes, but Fila will not wear them, confident her long skirts that reach down to the dusty floor will hide her chapped and calloused heels.

The red blotches on his forehead and cheeks made his face seem chapped.

They were square, chapped from going without gloves for outdoor chores, decorated with tattoolike designs drawn in henna.

At that moment, with my back and shoulders weary and my hands red and chapped with countless washings on the open hillsides this seemed to be veterinary practice at its best.

With competent, chapped hands, she flipped the ends of the hide into a neat loop, tucked in the edges, then inserted a stick through the center and twisted.

It was like I had an eye inside, one I never knew about before that day, and all I could see with it was Joe's long, horsey face, with his lips always cracked and his dentures always kind of yellow and his cheeks always chapped and red high up on the cheekbones.

Even so, it was painful to drag the heavy divided skirt back up legs chapped raw by repeated rubbing against wet cloth.

America Shaftoe sits, jeaned and barefoot, in the blue light of a window, bobby pins sprouting from chapped lips, looking at her face in an isosceles triangle of mirror whose scalpel-sharp edges depress but do not cut the pink skin of her fingertips.

The air was cold in the garage, like a huge icebox--it seemed even colder than the outside, and my chapped hands had trouble with everything--jacking up the car, getting the slashed tires off their rims and putting the new tires on the rims and on the car.

She wore the sleeves of her Women's Army uniform perpetually rolled up to display chapped muscular forearms, and affected the coarse jocularity of a male psychiatric nurse.

But she seized him by the ankles and pressed her chapped lips to the steel toe cap of one of his polished black combat boots.