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bone dry

ADJECTIVE
  1. 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.
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