dry as dust

Example Sentences

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For years, Cheney was a hero to the Republican right for his forthright manner and dry-as-dust ideological beliefs - and reviled by the left, who accused him of working for the interests of the oil industry.

From BBC

Yesterday, the decision emerged in a dry-as-dust news release at the dog end of the political day.

From BBC

Hughes has infused new life into dry-as-dust facts to produce a learned work that is brazenly, impudently vivacious.

From Washington Post

As Bernard Baruch points out in his introduction, “This is no dry-as-dust study. It deals with the raw stuff of living, how more than two billion men and women, including you and me, are to be fed, sheltered, and clothed — and whether or not we will live in peace tomorrow, and next year, and in the year 1975.”

From New York Times

Even that old windbag Polonius, played by Robert Joy, is less a bombastic grandstander than a dry-as-dust martinet.

From New York Times