bone-dry
Example Sentences
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“This Is Not About Us” mines excellent, bone-dry humor from the neuroses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 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
But a week later, powerful Santa Ana winds arrived, and coupled with single-digit humidity, they turned the landscape into bone-dry tinder ready to burn.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
The combination of a bone-dry winter, an early and rapid spring snowmelt, and a forecasted anomalously hot summer raises the risk of intense fire activity across the region, he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025
Yet the floor and the bowl were bone-dry.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
