dry land

How To Use dry land In A Sentence

• The shape of a limpet's shell has a great deal to do with whether the animal remains securely attached to its rock or is ripped off and thrown onto dry land or into the waiting tentacles of a hungry sea anemone.
• In the seventeenth century rice was grown on dry land, but in the next century it was chiefly grown in freshwater inland swamps or in lowland areas next to tidal rivers, where the ebb and flow irrigated the fields.
• It was good to be on dry land again after months at sea.
• All animals whatsoever, whether they fly or swim or walk upon dry land, whether they bring forth their young alive or in the egg, develop in the same way: save only that some have the navel attached to the womb, namely the viviparous animals, and some have it attached to the egg, and some to both parts alike, as in a certain sort of fishes. The History of Animals
• Experts say tent camps and cheap prefabricated buildings will now be thrown up on dry land surrounding the city to help ease the pressure on the already cramped shelters.
• The first time, the boat swamped with water and they had to race back to dry land along Lincoln Avenue to bail the water.
• In an attempt to find dry land they shot off threads of silk into the wind and glided through the air, a phenomenon called ballooning. Times, Sunday Times
• The EPA also permitted coal ash dredged from the Tennessee spill site to be transferred to a dry landfill in high-poverty areas in rural Alabama and Georgia. Michele Swenson: The Urgency of Toxic Coal Ash Regulation and the Move to Clean Energy
• The first time, the boat swamped with water and they had to race back to dry land along Lincoln Avenue to bail the water.
• Three years ago they came here and ranched the mountainous dry land.