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Recent Examples of bone-dry
The storm impacts have been felt from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes and Atlantic Coast as whiteout conditions forced people off the roads in the High Plains and wildfires broke out amid bone-dry conditions in south Texas.
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Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
The Aussie style is typically bone-dry with rapier-sharp acidity, chalk-dust texture, and delicate citrus and floral flavors.
—Christina Pickard, Bon Appétit, 5 Mar. 2025
Nestled in the bone-dry hills of Santa Fe, New Mexico, a two-story green stucco estate provided legendary actor Gene Hackman respite from the chaos of Hollywood during his final years.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
One solution – burying power lines in areas with bone-dry vegetation – would be costly.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
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Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
The Aussie style is typically bone-dry with rapier-sharp acidity, chalk-dust texture, and delicate citrus and floral flavors.
—Christina Pickard, Bon Appétit, 5 Mar. 2025
Nestled in the bone-dry hills of Santa Fe, New Mexico, a two-story green stucco estate provided legendary actor Gene Hackman respite from the chaos of Hollywood during his final years.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
One solution – burying power lines in areas with bone-dry vegetation – would be costly.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bone-dry
Adjective
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Rooftops tell their own stories, some adorned with statues of gods and warriors and others with sunbaked locals sipping café con leche.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
11 Apr. 2025
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Eventually, baseball—the sport of sunbaked afternoons, a sport made beautiful and strange by its exposure to the elements—may be unrecognizable.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
2 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Residents and hikers first saw it as a modest brush fire looming in the parched scrubland.—
Jon Schuppe,
NBC News,
11 Jan. 2025
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The winds will die down, and rain will eventually return to Southern California, but this one-two punch of high wind and parched landscapes will recur and intensify in the future.—
Kylie Mohr,
WIRED,
21 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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After washing, always air-dry your sweater on a flat surface to maintain its shape and texture.—
Katelyn Squiers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 Apr. 2025
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Let the ceiling air-dry before cooking in the kitchen.—
Halee Miller Van Ryswyk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Photograph: Pablo Romero In the arid region south of Mexicali, where the pale desert dominates the landscape, the Las Arenitas wetland feels like a mirage.—
Geraldine Castro,
Wired News,
23 Apr. 2025
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With reduced visibility, poor air quality and hazardous driving conditions, large-scale dust storms like this reflect ongoing challenges posed by drought and land degradation in arid regions.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Apr. 2025
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While urban areas like Los Angeles are under mandatory drought restrictions to reduce strain on state reservoirs, many rural residents reliant on groundwater wells are waterless.—
Tribune Content Agency,
oregonlive,
27 Nov. 2022
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Other eco-friendly measures include a solid waste incinerator to turn waste into non-toxic ash and a waterless urinal to reduce unnecessary usage.—
Camille Fine,
USA TODAY,
22 Aug. 2022
Adjective
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Since this kit is intended for use with regular polish, consider this Sally Hansen Insta-Dry quick dry polish set.—
Jené Luciani Sena,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Rain could aid firefighting efforts and saturate dry fuels, reducing their risk of igniting in the future.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Bone-dry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bone-dry. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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