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How to use bone-dry in a sentence

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The climate and the desert sands make the area bone-dry, yet the Dead Sea produces an abundance of moisture-retaining minerals.
The third daughter thought for a while, then unslung her unwieldy bag, placed it on the bone-dry ground, and opened it.
All thirsted for adventure in the bone-dry world they'd found outside the big house.
Yet 2005 is shaping up as a return to those horror conditions, with dams bone-dry and sun-baked farmlands cracking.
However, Mars today is a cold world of windswept deserts, bone-dry riverbeds, and extinct volcanoes.
Also in his favor, the congressman has a dark, bone-dry sense of humor that plays well with media types.
What could have propelled a stale, bone-dry story to the top of the Internet's importance arbiter?
With my first stroke of terra sigillata on a bone-dry greenware porcelain pot I knew this was going to work.
Sheets, towels, and tea-towels will need no ironing if they are folded carefully and put through the rollers before they are bone-dry.
He's 72 now, and there's a certain cussedness to his bone-dry directorial style that suggests it's a job he should now do less.
Some are bone-dry and steely, others are lightly sweet.
In the Jerez region sherry comes bone-dry and chilled.
Often bone-dry, it can be gloriously sweet as well.
Unprecedented bone-dry forest litter ignited nearly 300 fires, forcing 1,000 people out of their homes and into shelters and hotels near Thunder Bay.
The wind grew in strength and twisted bone-dry dust into little swirls.
It's bone-dry, beautifully balanced, with good acidity.
There is a strong sense of rejection running through Satyricon's work: The medieval fantasy settings of the earliest releases quickly made way for bone-dry, pure emotion.
The badlands are significant due to the plethora of fossils and dinosaur bones that have been recovered in the slowly eroding hoodoos, narrow valleys and bone-dry coulees.
But according to Wheelabrator, each bone-dry ton of material burned generates approximately one megawatt-hour of electricity.
Following Brian's great escape, returning no-mark number three Nikki Grahame staged yet another of her bone-dry sobbing fits.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The sun blazed hotly, and the soft yellow bluffs of bone-dry earth reached down to the dry beds of one-time streams.
The civil authorities of France would not be much use in helping the American army enforce a bone-dry order.
After the corn is bone-dry it should, like all other vegetables and fruits, be conditioned.
The lights of small restaurants glimmered faintly on the bone-dry pavement.
Fruits are dried only until leathery, whereas vegetables are dried until they are bone-dry.
There, Chenin Blanc is sometimes bone-dry, sometimes a little off-dry, but never too sweet.
This discovery debunked beliefs held since the return of the first Apollo rocks that the moon was bone-dry.
A bone-dry wine dominated by fresh red fruit aromas on the palate, cherry and cranberry with a touch of bitterness on the balanced medium finish.
During some winters, rainwater pools in the normally bone-dry lakebed and freezes into thin rafts of floating ice.
California experienced the driest year on record last year leaving vegetation throughout the state bone-dry.
Galavotti's bone-dry wit and urbane observations will be sorely missed on england trips.
Some 6,000 homes were evacuated as 21 large fires burned in the bone-dry western US state, which is in the throes of a historic drought.
There's vicious humour in the bone-dry exchanges between smooth Toby Stephens, as Elyot, and Anna Chancellor, who exudes rangy elegance as fiery Amanda.
What if these aerial flames fall on bone-dry moorlands, forestry, ripe cereal and hay fields, gorseland surrounding Welsh homes or even petrol stations?
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