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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 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

Composed of heat-resistant plastic and chemically treated cork layers, and equipped with a desiccating unit to keep the air bone-dry, the insosuits could withstand the full glare of Mercury’s sun for twenty minutes.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov