bone-dry
Example Sentences
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“This Is Not About Us” mines excellent, bone-dry humor from the neuroses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 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
The combination of a bone-dry winter, an early and rapid spring snowmelt, and a forecasted anomalously hot summer raises the risk of intense fire activity across the region, he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 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
The place was mountainous, rugged and bone-dry, like a wasteland.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
