dry as dust
Example Sentences
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Yesterday, the decision emerged in a dry-as-dust news release at the dog end of the political day.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2022
Even that old windbag Polonius, played by Robert Joy, is less a bombastic grandstander than a dry-as-dust martinet.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018
Yet Irwin is hardly a dry-as-dust antiquary, and “Wonders Will Never Cease” frequently reveals the wide range of his reading: His description of the world’s end was obviously adapted from H.G.
From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2017
“I withstood all the pain, standing out here in the rain,” he sings, over a dry-as-dust, horn-punctuated backbeat that would have graced any of his early 1970s singles.
From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2016
From Oregon came an impetuous, slangily-worded exhortation to Lydia not to make a fool of herself and miss the best of life to live up to the tommyrot standard of old dry-as-dust Endbury.
From The Squirrel-Cage by Williams, John Alanzo
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
