bone-dry

Example Sentences

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Allegra Goodman’s family saga coaxes, in Sam Sacks’s words, “excellent, bone-dry humor” out of the skirmishes and long-running battles among members of a loving, fractious clan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

“This Is Not About Us” mines excellent, bone-dry humor from the neuroses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

But a week later, powerful Santa Ana winds arrived, and coupled with single-digit humidity, they turned the landscape into bone-dry tinder ready to burn.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

It warned that there was typically a large volume of "dead, bone-dry vegetation across large areas of countryside" at this time of year which acts as a fuel for fire.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2025

There were plenty of washed-up logs and sticks on the island, and under the bridge the wood was bone-dry.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart