dried-out
Example Sentences
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The Palisades is nested against a mountain range filled with dried-out flora, making it an “extreme” fire risk, according to an official state threat assessment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Forests that had boasted hundreds of species were reduced to dried-out fragments, overgrown with invasive grasses.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2025
But still, if I step out of my house, I can see hills covered with dried-out brush and the tops of power stations.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2025
He then moved down the valley and built a camp and shelter in a dried-out creek bed.
From BBC • Nov. 27, 2024
The face framed by this astonishing cascade, however, was not that of a beautiful young woman but that of an old widow with a square head and dried-out mouth.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
