How To Use Bone-dry In A Sentence
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Now research shows how one plant does this: The desert rhubarb plant captures 16 times more liquid from its bone-dry surroundings than neighboring plants.
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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.
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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.
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The third daughter thought for a while, then unslung her unwieldy bag, placed it on the bone-dry ground, and opened it.
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Again I swallowed, trying to lubricate a mouth gone bone-dry.
NIGHT SISTERS
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Again I swallowed, trying to lubricate a mouth gone bone-dry.
NIGHT SISTERS
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Preserved by the bone-dry Atacama Desert and an elaborate deathbed treatment, the oldest mummies in the world have gone on display in the Chilean capital, Santiago.
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Again I swallowed, trying to lubricate a mouth gone bone-dry.
NIGHT SISTERS
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bone-dry leaves are a fire hazard
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Another apatite researcher, Francis McCubbin of the University of New Mexico, points out that one person's "bone-dry" could be another person's "relatively damp.
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A fan-shaped region of debris on Mars is providing new evidence that the planet, now bone-dry, once had persistent rivers or lakes.
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I personally try and keep it simple with a Grande, skim, triple, bone-dry cappuccino, which is Starbuck's English for the kind of cappuccino you'd get at the Rome airport.
Mark Strausman: A Chef's-Eye View of Starbucks
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Our No. 3 wine was a real curiosity, a bone-dry sparkling wine, or espumoso, made using the
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His performance is all sly looks and bone-dry readings, held together by a general air of barely contained exasperation at the antics of the fools and knaves who surround him.
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Yet 2005 is shaping up as a return to those horror conditions, with dams bone-dry and sun-baked farmlands cracking.
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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.
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The colon was ablaze, like a bone-dry bale of hay soaked in gasoline and then set afire.
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Sheets, towels, and tea-towels will need no ironing if they are folded carefully and put through the rollers before they are bone-dry.
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Searching for the source, Joanna spotted a young woman sitting on a tumbled boulder in the middle of the sandy, bone-dry riverbed.
DEVIL'S CLAW
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Woolf was one of those authors whose "paper rivers" formed the origin of Laing's watery obsessions, and there's an intriguing correspondence between "sources": rooting in "a copse of hazel and stunted oak" to find the indefinite "clammy runnel" of the Ouse, and shuffling among original manuscripts in a bone-dry archive.
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing – review
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The lobotomizing trio of bone-dry Sapphire martinis downed in response to said news?
Georgia’s Kitchen
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The excess engobe is removed with a metal scraper after it sets, or with sandpaper after the pot is bone-dry.
10. Decoration