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"It's unbearable. We can't open the windows, even the oranges in the garden and the laundry hanging out to dry are covered in black dust."

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

With plenty of dry and bright weather though, it may well feel pleasant in the afternoon sunshine for many.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The dry heat burned the asthma out of me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Most of the plain vessels instead contained dry clay fragments or sand, materials that had been used in local pottery traditions for about 3,000 years.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

We’d built it up with brush and pine knots to dry out these two, and Charlie’s dunking seemed some solace to Lloyd.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

It also dries out soils, deepening drought where El Nino brings drought.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Dog treats, favourite foods, washes and blow dries at home, endless love and attention.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Ron spasms under his desk, stifled by the small space; a colleague dries a co-worker’s hair with a piece of paper after blowing bubbles in it; Ron does the loudest meal prep you’ll ever hear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

But they are packaged into different tranches in order of who will get repaid first if the money dries up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

His expression is placid as he examines his cuts, turns off the water, and dries his hands with a towel.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

That really divided Whigs between drys and wets.

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2017

So who are the other Washington VIPs queuing up for blow drys, yoga, personal training and makeup application in the comfort of their open concept living rooms?

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2015

And while profits from cuts, colouring and blow drys have remained static, in 2012 the salon's hair extension business has grown 60% year on year.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2012

But she nonetheless tells her very fellow drys that she can secure Nucky’s help in doing away with these neighborhood stashes.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2010

As the river of that name that runs away from itself when it rains and drys up when it is clear, is so uncertain, the name Allegheny does not appeal to the masses.

From Watch Yourself Go By by Ben W. Warden

UK summers are expected to become drier on average due to climate change - although when there is heavy rain it could fall in more intense bursts.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

"October might be hotter and drier," Sarawak's Deputy Premier Douglas Uggah Embas told reporters.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Sork’s lab, along with the Nature Conservancy, is sequencing oak DNA to identify which trees are best built to survive a hotter, drier California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

North-west Scotland will see some rain but these systems are not expected to push across the rest of the UK, so this would mean drier weather with lighter winds and higher daytime temperatures for most.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Alyce snuffled into her sleeve, leaving her nose dirty and red and no drier than it was.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

Precipitation was below average, ranking in the driest third on record for both August and for the June-August period, and drought covered nearly 60 percent of the contiguous US by September 1.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

July’s 6.5 millimeters of rain in England, about 0.25 inches, was the lowest since records began in 1836 and less than half the next driest July—in 1911.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

In other research, scientists found that the last quarter-century has probably been the driest in 1,200 years in Western North America, and that global warming is responsible for about 40% of the drought’s severity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

It was also the driest July in England and Wales since records began 190 years ago.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

“Yes. It’s my job to know,” the woman answers in the driest voice I’ve ever heard.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

The lake has dried up due to a combination of factors, including geological fissures that drain water underground, below-average rainfall and repeated heatwaves.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

I turned perhaps $50 worth of produce into dried fruit, jam and an apricot pie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Then dams and expanding farmlands dried it up and turned it into a patchwork of fields, roads and towns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

I whisked the eggs and cream with garlic powder, onion powder, dried thyme, oregano, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper, plus a little drizzle of soy sauce.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

He lay on his back, staring up at the dried mushrooms strung across his ceiling.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Before engineers could switch on the WFI, the instrument spent 10 days drying out and undergoing decontamination.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Corn flakes, made from rolling and drying the unsweetened grain, were the result of his experiments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

It contained its own complete production line, including a drying turbine -- but wasn't as big as another recently dismantled facility that employed some 50 people.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

If it gets hotter outside and more humid outside, which keeps the sweat from drying off our body, our body has to work harder to maintain that stable temperature, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

When I get to “Harlem” by Langston Hughes, I think about my notebook, how my words are drying up like raisins, only it’s in my head, not the sun.

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist