dried-out
Example Sentences
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Teams have also griped about dried-out fields and practice sessions that had to be cut short due to the heat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2025
Forests that had boasted hundreds of species were reduced to dried-out fragments, overgrown with invasive grasses.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2025
He then moved down the valley and built a camp and shelter in a dried-out creek bed.
From BBC • Nov. 27, 2024
The fire, which has now consumed 40,219 acres, was still burning actively in Bear Creek on Sunday and producing a lot of smoky conditions because of dried-out fuels, Cal Fire said.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024
I thought of our beloved, big old house and how sad it looked in the middle of the yellow dried-out lawn.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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