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bone-dry

[bohn-drahy] / ˈboʊnˈdraɪ /


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Allegra Goodman’s family saga coaxes, in Sam Sacks’s words, “excellent, bone-dry humor” out of the skirmishes and long-running battles among members of a loving, fractious clan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

It’s dry but not bone-dry, a wine to please a wide range of palates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

At least four firefighters have been injured over the last week while battling three wildfires in Northern California forests that are burning amid extreme heat in steep, bone-dry terrain, fire officials said Monday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2025

It warned that there was typically a large volume of "dead, bone-dry vegetation across large areas of countryside" at this time of year which acts as a fuel for fire.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2025

It was an enormous, bone-dry hole in the side of Mount Elgon.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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