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Examples of high and dry in a Sentence
the inadequate supplies of vaccine left many people high and dry when the flu season arrived
Recent Examples of high and dry from the Web
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The residents and staff were high and dry on the second floor.
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As a result, as of Tuesday Little Muskego's water level had fallen about six feet, exposing vast stretches of shoreline and leaving docks and piers high and dry.
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As Shonda Rhimes prepares to move from ABC to Netflix, the network has already taken steps to make sure it’s not left high and dry.
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Meanwhile, Republican pragmatists from states that expanded Medicaid under Obamacare are afraid that Ryan’s overhaul will leave many of their low-income constituents high and dry.
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First Known Use of high and dry
1727
high and dry Synonyms
Synonyms
hamstrung, handcuffed, helpless, hog-tied, impotent, impuissant, paralyzed, powerless, weak;
Near Antonyms
able, capable, competent, effective, efficient;
authoritarian, autocratic (also autocratical), despotic, dictatorial, magisterial, tyrannical (also tyrannic);
dominant, dynamic, energetic, forceful, robust, sturdy, tough, vigorous;
Related Words
incapable, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inept, unfit, useless;
feeble, frail, infirm, passive, spineless, supine, unaggressive;
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