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How to use high and dry in a sentence

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Long ago, another stream captured the headwaters of the Wind Gap stream, leaving the gap high and dry.
I wasn't left high and dry as the book is well referenced which led me to the books that shaped his thinking on a variety of topics.
Two years ago many elderly Afro-Caribbean residents were left high and dry when their local organisation closed after 17 years.
A paraplegic man has been left high and dry after water pressure was reduced leaving his power shower producing little more than a dribble.
A raincoat will keep you high and dry, and it's a great way to add some punch to your sweater and jeans.
Holidaymakers have been left high and dry at Heathrow Airport as staff walked out in a dispute over clocking on and off.
Like all sorts of dependency we need to wean people off their cars, but at the same time we cannot leave people high and dry.
So far, trading standards officers in Oldham are trying to help 150 customers who feel they have been left high and dry by the company.
More recently, policyholders were left high and dry when Blue Swan Insurance went into liquidation.
The adjacent flood plain was left high and dry, depriving the inhabitants of the catfish and other marshland staples of their diet.
In the end, it is the taxpayer who will have to foot the bill if small fishing communities are left high and dry.
Hundreds of south Essex pupils were today left high and dry again after two popular school bus routes were axed.
Beadlet anemones are found in such shallow water that they are left high and dry at low tide.
The ark was a refuge until the waters went down, leaving Noah and his menagerie high and dry on Mount Ararat.
Will waterlogged homeowners be left high and dry by their insurance companies?
And some fear they could be left high and dry if plans to move accident and emergency services from Burnley to Blackburn are also approved.
When the youngsters hatch, they quickly move with the receding water to a more permanent watercourse to avoid being left high and dry.
There are towns like Watchet all over Britain, left high and dry as local industries have failed, who'd give their eye teeth for the development funds available here.
An international company closes a plant and leaves the community high and dry.
Otherwise, he said, you can be left high and dry if the developer goes bust.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Now we shall find the brook flowing in its channel with the flood plain deposits left high and dry.
A tide that neaped the frail bark of happiness high and dry upon the shores of black despair.
Mother Tubbs and Sam were high and dry in the loft of the stamp mill.
Wrecked it, wrecked it high and dry on the barren rocks of monasticism.
It was placed high and dry on a tussock in a flaming patch of hawkweed.
The last member of the party to disembark was a girl of about nineteen, and it was the young man who stood at the boat's prow to lift her high and dry upon land.
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