How To Use Dry land In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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It was good to be on dry land again after months at sea.
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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
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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.
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The first time, the boat swamped with water and they had to race back to dry land along Lincoln Avenue to bail the water.
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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
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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
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The first time, the boat swamped with water and they had to race back to dry land along Lincoln Avenue to bail the water.
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Three years ago they came here and ranched the mountainous dry land.
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Beavers, procyons, musquashes, foxes and otters dwell in the reeds, while boars and 30 other species of mammals live on dry land.
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After three weeks at sea we were glad to be back on dry land again.
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The only way off the barge and onto dry land is by way of a rowboat.
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It was a great relief to be back on dry land after such a rough crossing.
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The fisherman, meanwhile, stands in three feet of water, under the same summer's sun, arbitrating in other cases between muckworm and shiner, amid the fragrance of water-lilies, mint, and pontederia, leading his life many rods from the dry land, within a pole's length of where the larger fishes swim.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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The reason the beauty of this remote area has not been destroyed by mass tourism is because of the rugged dry landscape and lack of natural resources.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm no sailor and I couldn't wait to reach dry land.
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You often got that feeling when you stepped off a boat onto dry land.
The Glasgow Girls
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Still, better to be safe and on dry land than to be out at sea in the middle of all that chaos.
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In the panic that followed the flooding, disorganized camps consisting mainly of tarps and plastic sheets had sprung up anywhere dry land was left among the rising waters.
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The existence of a division of the genus Planaria, which inhabits the dry land, interested me much.
Chapter II
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The hallikara is known to be a hardy breed suited to the needs of dry land farming.
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Most of the territory between Miami and Naples is Everglades, swamp broken up by small patches of semidry land.
DearlyDevotedDexter
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For us there was one short journey remaining - to dry land.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any rower whose boat overturns in the ship channel faces a tough job getting to dry land safely.
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If the dry land is inseparable from the wet, then the East Coast is where the government's new foreshore and seabed law is going to hurt most, like a bomb in a crowded room.
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After ten hours under sail, they reached dry land.
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Going into what we call confined area landing sites -- CALS -- which is precisely what I was talking about, that last meter of dry land and that rooftop.
Press Briefing By General Wilhelm
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The receding of the water from the dry land after the flood sounds like the second and third days of Creation.
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Children who had plunged 30 feet off the bridge floundered in the muddy waters, trying to reach dry land.
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But Tony felt hot and clammy, perspiration making his shirt cling with all the discomfort of a wetsuit on dry land.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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The nests are usually located on dry land close to water, in areas with dense cover, especially bulrush.
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Even plants that usually grow on dry land—in soil—can be grown with their roots in a mineral-nutrient solution or in an inert medium, such as perlite, gravel, or something called mineral wool—fibers made from minerals or metal oxides.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
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His servant for the sake of His name should go unpunished; but quickly did he bring on them his deserved wrath, inasmuch as for the wickedness of them who dwelt therein the Lord converted their fruitful land into a salt marsh; and the sea, with the foreflowing of an unwonted tide, covered it, and, that it might even for ever be unhabitable, changed the dry land into a plashy lake.
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
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Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
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Scattered through the dry lands of eastern and southern Africa - on numerous grasslands, plains, fossil lake beds, hill slopes, and floodplains - is the springhare (or springhaas).
15 Agouti
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Then I had to swim again after the boat and row after the fyke, and finally was glad to get my net on dry land, where I left it for a week in the sun.
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I
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Everyone is wearing wellies and people are balancing suitcases on their heads as they wade down the street to get to dry land.
Times, Sunday Times
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You should return to dry land rested, relaxed and restored.
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Donovan and Bruce climbed onto the front hood of the DUKW for the ride to dry land.
Wild Bill Donovan
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I'm no sailor and I couldn't wait to reach dry land.
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But this load of sediments, transferred from the dry land to the ocean margins and shallow seas, disturbed the balance of weight (isostasy) which normally keeps the continental platforms above the level of the ocean basins (which as shown by gravity measurement are underlain by materials of higher specific gravity than the continents).
Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
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I swam around in circles, unwilling to return to the shore, unable to surrender this state of aquatic, marine grace to the dull, leaden heaviness of dry land.
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The English Channel and the North Sea were dry land, crossed by a few rivers and interrupted at intervals by large lakes formed in hollows scooped out by earlier ice-flows.
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You often got that feeling when you stepped off a boat onto dry land.
The Glasgow Girls
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dry land
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And not content with conquering dry land, the festival will also be waterborne, with boat trips and river-related theatre.
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Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
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They grow rice, mostly of the dry land varieties, and vegetables in abundance.
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For us there was one short journey remaining - to dry land.
Times, Sunday Times
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Back on dry land we warm up with a hearty buffet, eaten al fresco among the midges.
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The windmill is a machine for lifting water, turning wind power into dry land: trading energy for space, sixteenth-century style.
Boing Boing: June 12, 2005 - June 18, 2005 Archives
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On April the 9th, the men launched the lifeboats and headed for dry land for the first time in many months.
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To be sure, I would tell him how kindly I had myself been used upon that dry land he was so much afraid of, and how well fed and carefully taught both by my friends and my parents: and if he had been recently hurt, he would weep bitterly and swear to run away; but if he was in his usual crackbrain humour, or (still more) if he had had a glass of spirits in the roundhouse, he would deride the notion.
Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
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While he held his machine steady and followed the sprinting animals, the on-board sniper darted the last two heifers and the helicopter winched them back to dry land.
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They survived by clinging onto hay bales throughout the night, finding themselves stranded on a small patch of dry land the next day.
Times, Sunday Times
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But she did not explain why the equally sweaty patas monkey did not lose its hair in the same environment, nor how the hominids could have drunk so much in a hot, dry landscape.
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Back on dry land he wrestles with the 60-stone (800lb) beast in her enclosure and bravely lets Agee clamp her huge jaws around his head.
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It was good to be on dry land again after months at sea.
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Hail our life, our sweetness, and our hope that soon his month on dry land would be up, and he would return to the rigs, his gear packed in the kitbag, his peacoat buttoned to the collar.
Three for the christmas
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It is a dry land of mountains and steppes, with some plains in the valleys of the heartland.
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For us there was one short journey remaining - to dry land.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mill was a marge of firm soil, along which a column could pass, in scrubby country, and between the bogs was a sort of bridge of dry land.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
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Back on dry land, the rushes are dried out before they're used in the workshop near Wantage.
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a division of the genus Planaria, which inhabits the dry land, interested me much.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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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
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A case in example is dry lands in Vidarbha (Maharashtra) where the size of the average holding was 3.3 hectares, but the productivity was abysmally poor due to lack of irrigational facilities.
Rahul Gandhi Seeks Flexible Norms to Implement Waiver of Farm Loans
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I'm no sailor and I couldn't wait to reach dry land.
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The Canaries were the nearest bits of dry land to us, but Mr Jellicoe, the third mate, reckoned that they were a good hundred and fifty miles away, and dead to wind'ard; so it was useless for us to think of reaching them in a boat with her gunnels awash, and not a scrap of food or a drop of fresh water in her.
Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru
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Plants had been growing on dry land for at least 75 million years, but they were little more than mosses and liverworts growing on damp ground, along with some primitive vascular plants with stems a few inches high.
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That ocean, Bowman realized, must be very shallow; even if there was no dry land, there must be many reefs almost breaking the surface, to produce that endless susurration.
Tin
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Beyond this on dry land, black, northern red, and “scrub” oaks can get established, along with pitch pine, beach plum, and bayberries.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
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Most of the crops are from dry land including groundnuts, sunflower, green gram, sesame and soya.
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But once on dry land, it was quickly back on course.
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The prairies of Iowa and Kansas offer dry land aplenty, and water here is not a carrier of paralyzing sorrow but a healing substance, lustral and often luminous.
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He stumbles around, bellowing a song about dying on dry land.
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It was good to be on dry land again after months at sea.
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But Tony felt hot and clammy, perspiration making his shirt cling with all the discomfort of a wetsuit on dry land.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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In his vocabulary was no word for “crocodile”; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import — an image of a log awash that was not a log and that was alive, that could swim upon the surface, under the surface, and haul out across the dry land, that was huge-toothed, mighty-mawed, and certain death to a swimming dog.
CHAPTER XX
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We were glad to be on dry land again.
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On the yacht, you'll have the true believers in capitalism (in their madras jackets), and on dry land, everyone else - hurling insults at them.
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So strong is the barrier which these sea-borne sands oppose to the river-borne ooze, that as soon as a seabank is built -- as the projectors of the 'Victoria County' have built them -- across any part of the estuary, the mud caught by it soon 'warps' the space within into firm and rich dry land.
Prose Idylls, New and Old
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Children who had plunged 30 feet off the bridge floundered in the muddy waters, trying to reach dry land.
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So it's hilarious seeing them playing the clumsiest game we've ever seen of hunter versus hunted on dry land.
The Sun
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It was good to be on dry land again after months at sea.
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He was determined to keep both feet firmly planted on dry land.
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He was a big man and a strong, the sightliest of men and a good skald; and when he was fully grown he fared between sundry lands, and was well accounted of wherever he came.
The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875
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The marsh gave way gradually to dry land, and the reeds and willows to hazels and elders.
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But if the bottom be lowered by sinking at the same rate that it is raised by fluviatile mud, the bay can never be turned into dry land.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
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Discussions on the medium term centred around identifying dry land and shelter.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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There is strong geological evidence that the only "dry land" prior to the early Archean was scattered basaltic islands (sitting over mantle plume "hot spots") similar to the Hawaiian islands.
Ancient Predator Revealed!
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The marsh gave way gradually to dry land, and the reeds and willows to hazels and elders.
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The reason the beauty of this remote area has not been destroyed by mass tourism is because of the rugged dry landscape and lack of natural resources.
Times, Sunday Times
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For us there was one short journey remaining - to dry land.
Times, Sunday Times
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You often got that feeling when you stepped off a boat onto dry land.
The Glasgow Girls
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Hail our life, our sweetness, and our hope that soon his month on dry land would be up, and he would return to the rigs, his gear packed in the kitbag, his peacoat buttoned to the collar.
Three for the christmas
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The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum on the edge of town had boats on dry land which the kids could climb in, a lighthouse to climb up, fishing nets to climb over, and, inevitably, a history of oystering.
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As a kind of annual late-spring weed, dayflower(Commelina Commw2is L), which existed mainly in dry land, such as soybean, wheat and corn, was very difficult to control.