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bone-dry

[bohn-drahy] / ˈboʊnˈdraɪ /


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Allegra Goodman’s family saga coaxes, in Sam Sacks’s words, “excellent, bone-dry humor” out of the skirmishes and long-running battles among members of a loving, fractious clan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

“This Is Not About Us” mines excellent, bone-dry humor from the neuroses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

At least eight firefighters have been injured while battling the Orleans Complex and the Green fire in Northern California forests that are burning amid extreme heat in steep, bone-dry terrain.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2025

The remote areas are steep, thickly-forested and bone-dry.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2025

Yet the floor and the bowl were bone-dry.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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