dry as a bone
Example Sentences
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The deadpan Val is dry as a bone, juxtaposed against the tightly coiled live-wire Kevin.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022
Set it out in the sun and allow it to become dry as a bone.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2020
The production is dry as a bone, all finger-click beats, big lazy bass drops and strange vocal samples that fade in and out.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2012
His road, you might say, has gone dry as a bone.
From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2012
His bright black eyes saw beyond the hospital room to the streams that roared with water two months of the year and were dry as a bone the rest of the time.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
