dryness

Example Sentences

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It typically lasts up to a year, peaking around year-end, and tends to bring dryness and heat to much of Asia and wet weather to various places, including the Gulf Coast.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

While blocking highs may not be happening more often, studies suggest that when they do occur the heat and dryness they bring are more intense than in the past.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Three years later, the York fire scorched more than 145 square miles amid unprecedented heat and near-record dryness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

That summer saw temperatures exceed 40C for the first time in parts of Britain, stretching fire services to their limits and highlighting how rising heat and dryness can rapidly escalate fire risk.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

She gloried in the off-beat dryness of Michelle Obama’s humor, the confidence in her long-limbed carriage, and then she mourned when Michelle Obama was clamped, flattened, made to sound tepidly wholesome in interviews.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie