How to Use bone-dry in a Sentence

bone-dry

adjective
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  • His legacy is akin to a cloth that’s been wrung bone-dry.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2023
  • Its births were triggered by rainfall in the bone-dry desert.
    — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • Then, a bone-dry second half of the year and sparse early winter snow left the landscape parched.
    — Time, 22 Aug. 2023
  • My hair comes out of each wash whisper-soft and moisturized, a far cry from the wiry, bone-dry mop I was forced to work with pre-Jupiter.
    — Jake Smith, Glamour, 22 Feb. 2023
  • This is Bungie executives trying to squeeze blood from a bone-dry stone.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The bone-dry air and meager plant coverage allows sunlight to heat up the desert surface.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 19 July 2023
  • On a recent day, the culverts were bone-dry, the only rushing sound from the highway traffic nearby.
    — oregonlive, 9 June 2023
  • Hillsides were caked and brown, city streets were dotted with dead lawns, and wildfires raged throughout the state and region, feeding on bone-dry grass and shrubs.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The entrance is tucked next to some shelves on the top floor; the interior is bone-dry, and reminiscent of a magical sauna.
    — Sloane Crosley, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2023
  • For the first time since 2005, a lake — called Lake Manly — has formed in Badwater Basin, an expanse of salt flats within the park that are usually bone-dry.
    — Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Like few places in the country, the state has had to reckon with the danger of weather whiplash — bone-dry conditions in the summer followed by pounding rain, deadly floods and dozens of feet of snow.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • My dad remembers a teenage Jay, mop of curly brown hair and a bone-dry sense of humor, bodybuilding on dirt roads, with a rope harness strapped to his body, pulling an old Jeep like a horse pulling a buggy.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Officials said the bounty made a dent in the state’s extreme drought conditions and offered some hope for strained water supplies after three bone-dry years.
    — Hayley Smithstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • With wetness all around, at least one team this March has intentionally kept its postgame celebrations bone-dry.
    — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • These efforts are easily undone, however, by taking long, hot showers or sleeping in a bone-dry room for 8 hours.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Cooked up is the key phrase, since hot water and hot air were crucial in rapidly growing Hilary and then steering the storm on an unusual path that dumped 10 months of rain in a single weekend in normally bone-dry places.
    — Time, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Napa wineries produce world class dry Riesling on par with the finest bottles from Alsace, offering bone-dry freshness and flavors of peach and lemon with a hint of florality.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Audiences pay their money for a bone-dry swim in an ocean of digital projections and swirly images from famous paintings accustomed to being still.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The images of floodwaters in the Tulare Lake Basin are in stark contrast to the nearly bone-dry lake that subsisted off minimal precipitation for several years on end, and the change happened fast.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 30 June 2023
  • On a bone-dry, gusty day in November, the Camp Fire nearly incinerated the rural town of Paradise, again catching hundreds of residents by surprise and killing 85 people.
    — Brianna Sacks, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Hot water and hot air were both crucial factors that enabled Hilary’s rapid growth — steering it on an unusual but not quite unprecedented path that dumped rain in some normally bone-dry places.
    — Mark J. Terrill, John Antczak and Julie Watson, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The bone-dry Mid-Atlantic region desperately needed a soaking, and Tuesday’s storm delivered.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • From his bone-dry wit to the energy drinks and Dr Peppers littering his work space to a proclivity for buffets, Carlton’s presence in press boxes and sports sections was unmistakable.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The result is Shin Godzilla, a bone-dry satire of government impotence and self-important bureaucrats that’s the most realistic installment in the series since the original.
    — Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Rain is needed desperately in parts of Mexico and Central America that are bone-dry after weeks of unrelenting heat.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 18 June 2024
  • California’s summer is off to a fiery start after an explosion of wildfire activity across the state this week, forcing evacuations and scorching several homes, businesses and bone-dry hillsides.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
  • Two wildfires that sparked Tuesday in Northern California have prompted mandatory evacuations amid bone-dry vegetation heated up by extremely high temperatures and gusty winds.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 3 July 2024

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