bone-dry
Example Sentences
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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
