dried-up
Example Sentences
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Running a big food company these days is like fishing in a dried-up pond.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
Ailton Krenak, from Brazil, talked of rivers that that had been "erased by money" and seeing the dried-up, polluted waterways was like a much-loved "grandfather in a coma".
From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025
Ingenuity remains in contact with its companion, the Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up river bed for signs of extinct Martian life.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024
Beets, spinach, and endive died where they grew, with telltale dried-up, silver-metallic leaves.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2023
Money to install water pipes, or to repair the electric wires that had gone down in the storm and hung like limp, useless, dried-up worms.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
