dried-out
Example Sentences
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As ice locked up water, vast shallow seas dried out, triggering an "icehouse climate" and radically altering ocean chemistry.
From Science Daily • Jan. 11, 2026
“Think of it like a lake bed that dried out over many millions of years,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
Urmia, in the northwest, is Iran's largest lake, but has largely dried out and turned into a vast salt bed due to drought.
From Barron's • Nov. 16, 2025
The tributes would be preserved and stored at a secure location, the council said, with any that had got wet in the rain dried out before storage.
From BBC • Aug. 4, 2025
“It worked for about twenty seconds, then it went out. If I can get it dried out, it might come back on. Let’s go.”
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
