ADJECTIVE
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without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone
bone-dry leaves are a fire hazard
a drier to get the clothes bone dry
How To Use bone dry In A Sentence
- To toast, place the spice mix in a bone dry frying pan and heat it until warm and you can smell the fragrance.
- Everything was bone dry, and the cedar breaks below the escarpment held not a single robin, waxwing, solitaire, or bluebird.
- That summer was bone dry and scorching hot, and thousands of people died. Times, Sunday Times
- I better break out the elbow grease, more lighting, a bucket in case I'm wrong about the bone dry angle, and all the paper towel and germicide sprays in the cupboard. Into the depths! (:snicker!: She wrote "ballcock!")
- This turkey is bone dry! We need to add more broth.
- Another option for 'take along' tinder is the lint collected from the dryer after a load of towels BUT it should be kept bone dry in a 35mm film cannister. What is the best way to start a fire in a hurry in the outdoors without matches etc.
- The river is more a stream, eventually splitting into marshy islets and after such a rainless spring was bone dry for a mile of so.
- We had a go at backing up her files, and then when they all went off to Braintree I came home and checked my windows, which seem to be bone dry in the presence of the moisture gobblers.
- Until recently, the ground was bone dry and my heavy clay soil cracked wide open. The Sun
- For two weeks we had a black frost day and night with a strong east wind and then on February 2nd, when everywhere was bone dry at 3pm, the snow started to fall.