high and dry
Example Sentences
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Only that department is set to get left high and dry once Saturday starts, but that’s still significant given its arms include the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026
Others in the community have left out water to help coyotes, birds and “any poor wildlife” left high and dry by the Eaton fire, she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025
The land is high and dry, the ground rocky and inhospitable — not like the rainy coastal Northwest, where trees grow thick and fast.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024
When a cyberattack knocked the British Library out of commission in October of last year, a nation’s researchers, scholars, students, and bookworms were left high and dry.
From Slate • Jan. 19, 2024
Instead, my mistakes, self-doubt, insecurity, and wandering mind left me high and dry.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
