How to Use bone-dry in a Sentence

bone-dry

adjective

• His legacy is akin to a cloth that’s been wrung bone-dry.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2023
• If your mum is bone-dry, give it a good soaking first, then place the plant in the hole.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Dry spells offer no challenge at all to this native of rocky and sandy, bone-dry soils.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 16 Aug. 2024
• Then prop it up on its side until bone-dry to further guard against warping.
  — Alaina Chou, Bon Appétit, 17 Sep. 2024
• 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
• But the bone-dry cabin air and the altitude can really mess things up.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 17 June 2025
• The resulting wines range from bone-dry and structured to fruity, floral, and slightly sweet.
  — Emily Price, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
• Bacchus, bone-dry, slumps in the center of a stagnant green pool clutching fistfuls of limp grapes; none of the fountains is turned on.
  — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025
• This is Bungie executives trying to squeeze blood from a bone-dry stone.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• His mix of bone-dry humour and innate decency are the perfect foil for the film's welling emotions.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 21 Nov. 2024
• The bone-dry air and meager plant coverage allows sunlight to heat up the desert surface.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 19 July 2023
• The wind, fires and terrain filled with bone-dry vegetation from lack of rain in the area had formed a perfect storm for the disaster, Crowl said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2025
• On a recent day, the culverts were bone-dry, the only rushing sound from the highway traffic nearby.
  — oregonlive, 9 June 2023
• Joy, even for something as stupid as bone-dry pant cuffs, is not typical Milhouse.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
• 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
• And bone-dry vegetation means a new fire could ignite and any moment.
  — Brandon Miller, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Water rolled off the jacket during testing, and the fabric remained bone-dry to the touch afterward.
  — Grace Smith, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Strong Santa Ana winds and bone-dry conditions combined to heighten fire risks.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
• The newcomers glanced at one another, then toward the turtles (still in their tank), and, finally, down at their bone-dry cups.
  — Marina Harss, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
• 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
• That has kept local vegetation bone-dry and highly flammable well into what is supposed to be the rainy season.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2025
• Chin-Hong compared the country to a bone-dry forest that’s vulnerable to wildfires.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026
• This tongue-in-cheek intro is indicative of the longtime comedian’s bone-dry brand of humor.
  — Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2026
• But starting with bone-dry potting mix can frustrate your plant from the start.
  — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2026
• Between freezing air outside and bone-dry heat indoors, moisture gets zapped fast, leaving behind frizz, static, and ends that feel crunchy.
  — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 20 Feb. 2026
• If water continues to pool on top of bone-dry soil, then change the potting mix.
  — Rachel Gillett, Martha Stewart, 21 Jan. 2026