How To Use Desiccate In A Sentence
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Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach.
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There are 2.5 billion mummified, skinned, pressed, pinned, stained, frozen, pickled, skeletal-bleached, and desiccated dead specimens of species worldwide.
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Finally, they shrink by as much as half as they desiccate naturally.
Groundwork: Beans, cute and dried
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We got up at six to get the bird into the oven, so it can be totally desiccated, friable, granular, sabulous, arenaceous, the way turkey always is.
A vlog about Thanksgiving squirrel, Mancow, guns, law school, commenters, and Madison versus New York.
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When the tide is low, terrestrial conditions can heat and desiccate organisms beyond their tolerances.
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Normally, we portray our politicians as desiccated calculating machines, charlatans or megalomaniacs.
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Yet here they too were mummified by natural means, as corrosive body fluids drained away into the same hot dry sand which desiccated and preserved their skin, hair and nails.
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Each individual replicate was desiccated separately in its own sterile jar containing a single plastic float above the saturated salt solution.
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If, instead of injecting material from an infected rabbit to an uninfected rabbit directly, they desiccated the material first and waited a period of days, the virulence of the disease declined rapidly.
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As my brain floods with memories of that evening, unreachable now, I squeeze the desiccated cork tightly in my fist, and begin to cry.
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The most common cryptobiotic strategy (and the one employed by Eureka’s insect plague) is to become desiccated, with a creature losing nearly all its water in a process known as anhydrobiosis.
Eureka: Putting the Crypt in Cryptobiosis
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The absence of the vaporization effect is complemented by the fact that APC desiccates the tissue, thus preventing hazardous perforations.
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Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach.
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During prolonged droughts, Malheur Lake desiccates to a point that it cannot be used by trout.
Trout and Salmon of North America
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shredded and desiccated coconut meat
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It's a direful thing to have in your hands, a desiccated version of Lady Gaga's skirt-steak dress.
Madame Bovary, Grant Wood And More: Book Review Roundup
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I found Fiedler's body first - the pilot no longer looked drowned, but rather mummified, desiccated, as if by a hundred years of desert winds.
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He is the perpetually hungry scholar, too desiccated by poverty to return her love, a vampire preying on her bountiful spirit.
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To a nurseryman the past was about as much use as a tray of desiccated seedlings.
TALES OF THE ROSE TREE: Ravishing Rhododendrons and their Travels Around the World
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I twirled the leaf around in my fingers: dry, yellow and brown and brittle, tatters of desiccated material around a skeleton of veins.
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In the corner, a desiccated snapdragon leaned from an ice-cream carton, soil spilled around its base.
DO NO HARM
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Even at this time of the year, the very beginning of summer, it sprawls dry, thorny and desiccated, in shades of tan, amber, and a hundred browns.
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You have trays of dried chillies, raisins, desiccated coconut, crumbling curry leaves and chewy mango bar.
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Cultures were desiccated and held at 5% relative humidity for 2 weeks as previously described.
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And withdrawing troops from Berlin would give them just that chance -- to reunite, to dominate and desiccate Europe all over again.
WALL GAMES
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Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power.
'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
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I rang the bell and waited for a desiccated old man in a frock coat to shuffle through the door.
KICK BACK
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But when I ask him how he sees himself at 60 (and it's quite clear that he'll be a desiccated carper to rank with William Burroughs) his hackles rise.
FallNews - they grease the roads! *truckers' pin-up edition*
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From here I could locate the weather-beaten mounds of desiccated earth known as the Badlands.
Mercy Kill
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Flipping through this magazine, it's hard to believe there once was a day when athletes' kitchens were stocked with just eggs and desiccated liver.
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That those natural treatments, such as desiccated thyroid like Armour made by Forest Labs of the US, are changing lives and removing those lingering hypothyroid symptoms because of the presence of direct T3;
UK's Royal College of Physicians a nightmare for thyroid patients
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Fat mince and soya extract mixed, sprouts boiled to a mush, desiccated onions fried in oil, that sort of idea.
THE SCAR
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A portion of each shoot was desiccated and preserved in silica crystals.
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Eloise explained that she had gone to church, and Jack told of the key under the mat, and the talk flowed on; and Eloise could not forbear telling them of Mrs. Biggs's wish not to have the Sabbath "desiccated" by visitors.
The Cromptons
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Anyone who can recall the desiccated, plastic-wrapped sandwiches of British Railway's cafés will concede that competition in this arena is to be encouraged.
The New York Review of Books
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It is important to uproot and desiccate these weeds thoroughly, because burying them in the loose dry soil is not very effective (unless they are buried quite deeply).
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Insatiable reader that I was, I’d soon have desiccated from the need to imbibe stories if we had not discovered the local library.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A love song to libraries
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a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery
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Do you really believe 'desiccated' has two 's's and one' c '?
Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories
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These events may need to occur within a fixed time period under the high temperature and low moisture conditions of the desert since high temperatures and low moisture will eventually desiccate detached stem segments.
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old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars
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Windy conditions can also desiccate so erect a windbreak until they are established.
January: the to-do list
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Haag offers the analogy of what she calls the desiccated American Beauty marriage: It offers the husband, played by Kevin Spacey, two roles: to live either as a sexless, soul-crushingly dutiful and henpecked husband, or as a pot-smoking, self-absorbed adolescent who lusts after the high school cheerleader.
Bella DePaulo: Don't Want to Divorce? Indulge Your Polyamory or Asexuality, Have Your Affairs, Live Apart
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If you don't want the bother of making Welsh rarebit just put sliced cheese on hot buttered toast and put under a grill" – unless you fancy a "Hawaiian Sandwich", with ham and those inevitable pineapple rings, finished off with a plate of "Coconut Whispers" 9oz of desiccated coconut, one large tin condensed milk?
The past in a pineapple ring | Peter Preston
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If it desiccates when you're not having any, what will you do about it?
My Garden Is Telling Me That I'm Abusing My Kids
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The ham was desiccated, the scrambled eggs congealed, and the fruit juice fermented.
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Specifically, that means a time when liquid water appears to have run freely around the planet, and when Mars had a magnetic field surrounding it that enabled a much thicker atmosphere to act as a shield against the ravages of the solar wind and the ultraviolet radiation that now desiccate the surface.
First Contact
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Referred to as ‘poison-winds,’ these northers could quickly desiccate crops and even kill small birds.
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This drying technique involves the use of an absorbent which desiccates the rose by transferring the moisture from the petals to another medium.
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a desiccate romance
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This drying technique involves the use of an absorbent which desiccates the rose by transferring the moisture from the petals to another medium.
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It is possible that mummified black rats - also known as roof rats - found in attics were not placed there for protection, but merely died there and became naturally desiccated.
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Several samples were collected, most of which desiccated and crumbled to powder within a day or so, but one sample retained its glassy, bright blue character for more than a year.
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His disenchantment is wan, taking the form of desiccated sentiment, not grotesquerie.
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Quite common are northern bur-reed Sparganium hyperboreum, small pondweed Potamogeton pusillus ssp. groenlandicus, dwarf water-crowfoot Ranunculus confervoides and occasionally awlwort Subularia aquatica, which only blooms if the pond is totally desiccated (where the mudworm Limosella aquatica also thrives).
Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
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His chicken curry, for example, is a retro classic made with Granny Smith apples, chicken stock and desiccated coconut.
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Referred to as ‘poison-winds,’ these northers could quickly desiccate crops and even kill small birds.
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The bricks were desiccated by the sun.
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What that means is that the juiciest of tips, when subjected to research, tend to desiccate and crumble.
The Fiddler in the Subway
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The Napartulik fossils are mummified (compressed and desiccated) plant remains that were buried in a freshwater, low-oxygen environment that limited decay.
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There is already insufficient water in California to support its current population, industry and agribusiness and the state's water supply -- from the Colorado, from snow melt from the aquifer of the Central Valley -- is actually in decline as climate change raises the state's mean temperatures, desiccates its forests and dries out its topsoil.
Giles Slade: Aint Got The Do-Re-Mi: The Beginning of The End of The Californian Dream
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On the ants— apparently the key ingredient in ALL the colony-killers is boric acid, which doesn't poison them but desiccates them.
Making Light: Open thread 134
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And withdrawing troops from Berlin would give them just that chance -- to reunite, to dominate and desiccate Europe all over again.
WALL GAMES
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Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach.
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The canopy world is a dry world - scientists call it "desiccated.
The Seattle Times
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Quite common are northern bur-reed Sparganium hyperboreum, small pondweed Potamogeton pusillus ssp. groenlandicus, dwarf water-crowfoot Ranunculus confervoides and occasionally awlwort Subularia aquatica, which only blooms if the pond is totally desiccated (where the mudworm Limosella aquatica also thrives).
Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
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Hydrated and desiccated leaves were prepared using conventional and freeze-substitution techniques, respectively.
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This is the granulated root of the Macacheira plant, the _Jatropha manihot_, which to our palates would seem like desiccated sawdust, although it appears to be a necessity for the
In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians
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The taut skin of these desiccated animals feels smooth under the hand and hard, like water-polished stone.
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The trick was to desiccate the seeds, spores and the animals first (for 3 days over silica gel) before heating them slowly at a rate of 4 °C per minute.
Survival at extreme temperatures: what is it good for?
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All the rest of that miserable, desiccated, dry-as-a-bone malarkey ?
BEHINDLINGS
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This dance of man against man in a self-created desert is different only in scale and naked exposure from how we live in the U.S. with our armies and watchmen and willingness to desiccate the lands that feed us.
Valerie Tarico: Man Against Nature is Man Against Man
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Frying and Sautéing Baking oiled vegetables is sometimes called “oven frying,” and indeed true frying in oil also desiccates the food surface, browns it, and enriches the flavor with the characteristic notes contributed by the oil itself.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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The handwringing in the press is so severe you can hear the bird-bones of these desiccated scribes cracking as they conjur up the next Horrible Scenario.
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During the Atlanta campaign we were supplied by our regular commissaries with all sorts of patent compounds, such as desiccated vegetables, and concentrated milk, meat-biscuit, and sausages, but somehow the men preferred the simpler and more familiar forms of food, and usually styled these "desecrated vegetables and consecrated milk.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
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Yet the leafy bamboo is as desiccated as fake stalks would be, and the birds are casually carved chunks of wood with a few daubs of color: not lifelike models but schematic signs of birdhood.
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Above the granite bedrock is a characteristic soil structure, consisting of seasonally well-aerated and well-watered sandy soils of 0.6 m to 3 m in depth that desiccate and harden during the dry season, with an impermeable "duricrust" of cement-like consistency beneath.
Itigi-Sumbu thicket
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So every summer, as the sun dries and desiccates the white-hot plains of India, a stream of pilgrims leave their farms and villages, pack their belongings into bound-up cloths, and plod their way up to Hardwar, where they bathe in the river.
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And withdrawing troops from Berlin would give them just that chance -- to reunite, to dominate and desiccate Europe all over again.
WALL GAMES
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The pads of his feet may be rough, but inside he is a dandy, the desiccated leaves the equivalent of the carefully strewn sand of a soft-shoe dancer.
Dog days of autumn
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Underfoot irregular, pebbles lay like aggregate and chips of stone protruded from the compacted ground, as desiccated and brittle as human bone.
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Another flash of lightning lit the cave with something that was not quite daylight, and he saw the remains of a fire pit, with a stack of desiccated animal dung next to it.
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Australia's lamington cake is usually rolled in desiccated what?
Times, Sunday Times
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In the arid Southwest, bark desiccates and can blow around the yard.
Pamper your pet's paws outdoors
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The coconut macaroons are far more delicious, little sugary balls of the desiccated nut.
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Most patients take the entire daily dose of desiccated thyroid in the morning.
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But maybe don't ask too much further because it's possible that before 'freezer perpetuity', the deceased cats might have been laid out on the hood of cars on front lawn, you know, to kind of desiccate before being burying?
The Moderate Voice
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Generally, these eggs were almost hollow, and the remaining contents were desiccated.
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Quite common are northern bur-reed Sparganium hyperboreum, small pondweed Potamogeton pusillus ssp. groenlandicus, dwarf water-crowfoot Ranunculus confervoides and occasionally awlwort Subularia aquatica, which only blooms if the pond is totally desiccated (where the mudworm Limosella aquatica also thrives).
Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
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Even her hair is wispy and desiccated, a spiderish black, standing out from her head as if electrified.
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The British might occasionally elect a desiccated calculating machine.
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This is an anodyne, desiccated version of the sultry performance for Graham in Paris.
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