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
When the team analysed the dried-up powder, they found it contained hematite, "giving the paste a deep red colour".
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2024
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
The vinyl seats smelled stale and moldering and were littered with bits of caramel popcorn and skeins of hair and dried-up splatters of soda.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
