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

It’s dry but not bone-dry, a wine to please a wide range of palates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

At least eight firefighters have been injured while battling the Orleans Complex and the Green fire in Northern California forests that are burning amid extreme heat in steep, bone-dry terrain.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2025

But, she said, the landscape will remain bone-dry.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 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