high and dry
Example Sentences
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Only that department is set to get left high and dry once Saturday starts, but that’s still significant given its arms include the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026
Others in the community have left out water to help coyotes, birds and “any poor wildlife” left high and dry by the Eaton fire, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
Ms Rowe said that her family had been "left high and dry".
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024
The land is high and dry, the ground rocky and inhospitable — not like the rainy coastal Northwest, where trees grow thick and fast.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Eeben Axelroot will be high and dry with no one but the maid to pick up his socks.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
