drying out
Example Sentences
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Moisture is your friend: Basil likes it best with consistent watering and very little drying-out between drinks.
From Salon • May 18, 2022
Economically important salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest are failing because the loss of alpine snowpack leads to the drying-out of Pacific-flowing streams and rivers.
From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2021
Time for the mile and three-sixteenths on the drying-out track was a slow 1:59 1/5.
From Time Magazine Archive
They followed Martha through girlhood rebellion against baffled parents, two short bad marriages, immersion in the Communist Party during World War II, and a subsequent period of psychic drying-out.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is due to the uneven drying-out of the wood and the consequent strains exerted in opposite directions by the wood fibres in shrinking.
From Seasoning of Wood by Wagner, J. B. (Joseph Bernard)
