leave dry

Example Sentences

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Willard said as he faced down poor water supply he had to decide which crops to keep growing and which to leave dry across his 300 or so acres.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

Young people who once may have taken over family concerns are now looking elsewhere as their parents leave dry dirt unplanted.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2021

Four new picture books leave dry land behind to reflect on the rewards and perils of friendship, empathy, courage and more.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2017

A crop of vesicles forms and, after bursting, these leave dry scabs.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

He told me now of the future that the feeble streams of his life would presently leave dry for me, houses, copyrights, investments; I had never suspected that philosophers were so rich.

From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)