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
None of that happened in the Palisades, with its hilly terrain covered in bone-dry brush, even though the weather service had flagged it as one of the regions at “extreme risk.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025
It’s dry but not bone-dry, a wine to please a wide range of palates.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
But, she said, the landscape will remain bone-dry.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025
The Kabul River, without its yearly spring floods, had turned bone-dry.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
