How To Use Dried-up In A Sentence

  • Not flamboyante not one of Ledom's crossbred bastardized beautiful miracle blossoms, but a perky little button of a dried-up marigold. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
  • In the center of the park the bowllike sand of a long dried-up water hole seemed overlaid by a thin sheet of silver, and the tiny palms that circled its shores were dark pillars, topped by a crown of silver leaves. The Plunderer
  • A few days after Raintree took it over, he was lookin 'round the garden, which old Sobriente had always kept shut up agin strangers, and he finds a lot of dried-up' slumgullion'* scattered all about the borders and beds, just as if the old man had been using it for fertilizing. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation
  • Thanks to the diary, we can now report that domestic labour in the Sedaris household is divided as follows: his partner replasters the attic walls, while "I take dried-up bees and clothe them in suits of armour made of tin foil". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • The shuffle of papers, the dried-up marker, the frantic search for the power switch and the nervous giggle as your acetates fall to the floor will all be part of the show if you're not careful.
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  • I found him first, a little withered, dried-up old fellow, wrinkled-faced and bleary-eyed and tottery. CHAPTER XII
  • Just make sure you remember to restock as needed at the end of each trip, lest you end up in Brisbane with a dried-up deodorant stick. Planning The Perfect Travel Washbag | Lifehacker Australia
  • Tall and skinny, he glanced along the beach and at last spotted Nia on her hands and knees, mouth ajar like a dried-up oyster. The Wall « A Fly in Amber
  • It takes in the dried-up soil, the prickly pear, the palm tree and the distant mountain, but it always misses the peasant hoeing at his patch.
  • a dried-up water hole
  • A state insect hunter found the dried-up male Medfly in a trap in Milpitas on Sept. 29.
  • After being dried-up the polymer is not deterged by any well-known lacquer solvents.
  • Dried-up heeltaps of beer and mead in two ancient drinking horns have yielded secrets of ancient German beverages.
  • Even the tiniest of curious children, were there any present to play here, would not be able to squeeze itself through the doorway on the other side of the little dried-up moat, knees resting on drawbridge, as I could imagine myself as an eight-year-old very much wanting to do. Sullen Months, Möbius Strips
  • Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press LOW WATER: A fishing boat sat abandoned on the bottom of the dried-up Poyang Lake, a vast wetland turned dry by China's worst drought in decades, in Xingzi, Jiangxi Province, China, Thursday. Photos of the Day: June 3
  • The money raised will be used to dig bore holes to pump water into the dried-up lake.
  • The librarian was a dried-up, bitter old man.
  • dried-up grass
  • So stop acting like a dried-up old stick and get with the program.
  • Then one day she got angry, and as I played with it on the page, I started to hear the voice of a great childhood girlfrienda cheerleader, a fearless, robust, farm girl who could cook a meal for a dozen farmhands when she was ten years old, a girl who, with the flick of a wrist, once sailed a dried-up cow-pie at me like a lethal weapon. A Conversation with Jean Harfenist, author of A Brief History of the Flood
  • But it was a particularly hot day, period cramps were chewing at her lower belly, and she had looked at Sister Ibinabo – her dried-up face that hoarded years of personal frustrations and made it difficult to tell her age, looking at young girls with a poisonous spite that she pretended was religious guidance – and suddenly saw something of her own mother. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Miracle
  • The squat mulga trees, an equation for dried-up hope in bad seasons, are green above their black trunks, and the clumps of applewood are blue. Travel: Dickens down under
  • As the dried-up brook is to the caravan, so are ye to me, namely, a nothing; ye might as well not be in existence [Umbreit]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • You, too, my dried-up old sorceress, will be telling me all you know about what is in those crates. NAKED EMPIRE
  • The discovery is based on a detailed study of the dried-up river deltas and thousands of river valleys that scatter the Martian surface.
  • They are later harvested, but fish diversity is reduced as the fishermen's catch is dominated by mudfish, a hardy member of the catfish family that survives in dried-up river- and lakebeds.
  • Its dried-up canals have been taken over by the Typha australis bulrush, said Asuquo-Obot, who has been doing research on the macrophytic vegetation of large lakes.
  • A state insect hunter found the dried-up male Medfly in a trap in Milpitas on Sept. 29.
  • That dried-up worthless twit once again obscures the real point with blather.
  • What they portend is that—just as Wells had written at the start of "War of the Worlds"—an old, arid world with its dried-up canals is now intent on conquest. Why Steampunk's Time Has Come
  • Today spinster suggests a rejected, dried-up "old maid," so much so that some single women are driven to adopt the ludicrous term bachelor girl to describe their status. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1
  • Hubei province, Honghu city: A fisherman tries to paddle his boat through a small stream amid the partially dried-up fishery in the Honghu lake, Hubei province.
  • All he'd had today was a dried-up ham sandwich, a stale vending-machine Milky Way, and what passed in the squad room for coffee. DOLL'S EYES
  • The local residents dig water wells in the dried-up river beds. Louis Belanger: Turkana: Photo story of how North Kenya is coping with drought
  • The orders for this occupation were made by General Kearney before he left, in pursuance of instructions from the War Department, merely to subserve a political end, for there were few or no people in Lower California, which is a miserable, wretched, dried-up peninsula. Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
  • Hubei province, Honghu city: A fisherman tries to paddle his boat through a small stream amid the partially dried-up fishery in the Honghu lake, Hubei province.
  • I should like to have you opposite me in any mood, whether the facetiously discursive, the metaphysically discursive, the personally confidential, or the jadedly CURSIVE and argumentative -- so that the oyster-shells which enclose my being might slowly turn open on their rigid hinges under the radiation, and the critter within loll out his dried-up gills into the circumfused ichor of life, till they grow so fat as not to know themselves again. Familiar Letters of William James I
  • Once they launched their rocket and gave away their position in the dark, dried-up riverbed, they were exposed to a merciless rain of machine gun fire, mortar bombs and claymore mines.
  • Its meander begins at the railway siding and extends down the bleak R545 road to Bethal, passing between open-cast coal pits and dried-up mealie fields.
  • Hubei province, Honghu city: A fisherman tries to paddle his boat through a small stream amid the partially dried-up fishery in the Honghu lake, Hubei province.
  • The buttons on lifts, tainted with vague trails of dried-up fluids, never escape her consciousness.
  • There was no sight of land, no Skoufas, no food but a doubtful clump of rooty plants and a tuft or two of dried-up grass. THE QUEST FOR K
  • The idea is to desalinate some of the seawater, but to use the rest to fill Xinjiang ' s dried-up salt lakes and desert basins in the hope that it will evaporate and encourage rainfall over drought-stricken areas of northern and northwestern China. China Officials Push Water Plan
  • Further afield where camels browse, we found dried-up, and unyielding acacia trees, normally a reliable source of sustenance.
  • The money raised will be used to dig bore holes to pump water into the dried-up lake.
  • He was a very old and dried-up man - one of those people who wear a sweater and a muffler over starched white kurta-pajamas even in summer.
  • Used carefully, when the stream dried-up the stagnant water lasted throughout the summer. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
  • Left, women gathered around a well to draw drinking water on the banks of the dried-up Vakaria lake near the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, May 14, 2011. Monsoon and the Indian Economy
  • It was only dried-up old MBA 's like me that she would have a hard time convincing. NO BODY
  • In the night, in those early months, as she tried to move towards him to embrace him fully, to offer herself to his dried-up spirit, she found that he was happier obsessively fondling certain parts of her body in the dark as though he were trying to find something he had mislaid. The Empty Family
  • He presented pictures of sun-baked riverbeds and dried-up wells at the seminar, including one of a man straddling cracks in a dry riverbed.
  • The mud in the dried-up river bed had cracked.
  • Regardless of how you think things will turn out, you have to admit, it's nice to have someone in there that doesn't look like the same stodgy, uptight, ancient, dried-up old codgers that tend to inhabit the Presidency. This Post Brought To You By A Late Night

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