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Example sentences for "dry"

Lexicographically close words:
drusy; druther; druv; druve; drwg; dryad; dryads; drydock; drye; dryed
  1. Antelope, deer, and elk meat was good fresh, for a change, but it did not dry well.

  2. We skinned them all, taking the hides for more lodge covering, and cut a lot of meat from a fat, dry cow that I had killed, and then we were prepared to weather the storm, no matter how long it should last.

  3. I then cared for my horse, and with good will helped my companions gather material, dry poles, dead branches, brush, and armfuls of tall rye grass for a small lodge.

  4. A considerable number of preparations have been obtained in the dry state which retain some proportion of the fermenting power of yeast or yeast-juice.

  5. They abide oft in a dry country and always commonly in herd with other bucks.

  6. At Portsmouth there is a fine dry dock and navy yard, as I was informed.

  7. It was upon a dry and burning day, near the last of August, that Mary L'Oiseau and her daughter sat down to their frugal breakfast.

  8. Well, I always heard that our fresh island roses withered in the dry heat of the American climate, and now I know it!

  9. Therefore if the gem lack the full brilliance of some of the specimens that an older continent can produce, its importance must not be under-estimated, since it possesses the rare merit of being all but unique in its own country.

  10. It is merely necessary to proceed to the end of the rails, just beyond the platform, in order to look sheer down upon the water of the river some hundred feet below.

  11. Hares abound in the neighbourhood, and at the approach of the train great numbers of the animals speed away behind the sheltering boulders.

  12. The modest establishments of this particular district are worthy of special mention.

  13. Finally the agent piled dry wood on the fire, and the blaze leaped up the chimney.

  14. With an indescribably graceful gesture the orator stooped to the ground and grasped a handful of the loose dry earth.

  15. He wore a long linen duster and was evidently of the sort that seasons its most serious transactions with a dry and facetious humor.

  16. Put him to bed somewhere, to get dry and warm.

  17. If the boy is on dry land, you'll have to trust him to the Lord.

  18. When the time comes for them to be finally taken up, a fine dry day is chosen.

  19. The cleaning of all bulbs, which consists in removing the old outer husk and presenting the bulb dry and shining as we see it, is usually done by women in a big barn not far from the grower’s office.

  20. A fire arises in the woods; the wolf brings dry twigs in his mouth to make it burn better, and the eagle helps him by fanning the flames with his wings.

  21. Spring floods and early June rise make rivers treacherous; dry seasons of late summer may require portage of Little Missouri.

  22. They dry much of their food, especially meat and vegetables.

  23. The native grasses of the western part of the State were unable to withstand the heat and insects of recent dry years.

  24. The Arctic explorer has been credited with pranks such as releasing a small pig on the speaker's platform at convocation, and rolling a keg of beer across the campus to win a bet when North Dakota was a very dry State.

  25. UPPER DES LACS LAKE, which, despite present dry conditions, was once the scene of steamboating.

  26. Here, under State and Federal supervision, experiments are conducted in fruit production, dry land farming, and the raising of forage and cereal crops.

  27. The years of continued subnormal rainfall in this region have left the upper lake dry in places.

  28. An initiative measure in the election of 1932 repealed the prohibition clause in the State constitution, making North Dakota, dry since it became a Territory, a wet State.

  29. Early ranching in the region has given way to grain raising, dairying, and diversified dry farming, and the city has become a wholesale and retail distribution center serving a large agricultural area.

  30. The clear dry atmosphere afforded ideal flying conditions, and almost every part of the State was suitable for landing fields, even without improvement.

  31. I could not conjecture what would be the end of this ceremony, particularly as I saw one man carry fire, another an axe, and a third dry wood.

  32. He then presented me with a small piece of it, which I chose to taste in its dry state, though the oil was free from any unpleasant smell.

  33. I further observed that the ashes were removed from the fireplace, and that dry sand was spread where they had been.

  34. Hearne seldom had a dry garment of any kind, and in the caves where they lodged at night the water was constantly dropping from the roof.

  35. When a prolonged stay was contemplated, even the moss was cut up and removed, as it was very liable when dry to catch fire.

  36. It is necessary that these dry details should be understood in order that the reader may comprehend the motives and reasons which prompted the journeys which are about to be described.

  37. About May 15, the tops of the poplars begin to appear green, with fresh buds; the hills are changing their hue from a dry straw colour to a delightful verdure, and fragrant odours greet us.

  38. In fact, far from being the forbidding spot it has been painted, Dry Tortugas seemed to us a veritable garden in the path of the great Gulf Stream.

  39. The floor was of dry mud, and there was nothing to sit upon except our saddles.

  40. Surely Dry Tortugas has been maligned: instead of dry we find it very wet, a key of sand thirteen acres in extent, hardly one foot above the tide, and entirely occupied by probably the largest brick fort in the world.

  41. We lunched on the dry grass in the sun in full sight of Tabor, on the remnants of what the good missionary at Nablous had given us, and, tightening our saddle-girths, we began the ascent of the mountain.

  42. Little girl, I am thinking of the time when that dry wisp of hay was living grass.

  43. We poured the stinging liquid over our sugar, which had kept dry in a sardine-box, and warmed ourselves with frequent doses.

  44. But while Margery stood still for a moment on a dry rock and wondered, there came a low, rippling warble to her ear from a cedar-tree on the cliff above her.

  45. Again, referring to the dry weather that was prevailing at the time, the entry is, 'Present Dry Season.

  46. Our index seemed the poorest and most second-hand in the world after theirs: but let any one read theirs, and then call an index a dry thing if he can.

  47. As there 'is a soul of goodness in things evil' so there is a soul of humour in things dry, and in things dry by profession.

  48. At that moment I hear a heavy footfall, as of some great beast, on the thick dry leaves.

  49. I went out myself with the shikari scouts, inspecting jungle-paths, dry river-beds, and muddy margins of pools.

  50. It's useless to look for tigers in a dry country, and it's useless to try and find them in the wet season, when there is plenty of water everywhere.

  51. Luckily for Cassidy, his throat was not yet so dry but that he could amuse himself by fancifully measuring his thirst, first by pints, then by quarts.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acid; acidulous; anhydrous; apathetic; arid; ascetic; austere; bake; bald; bare; barren; blah; blank; bleed; bloodless; blot; boring; brassy; brazen; brush; burn; cake; candid; caustic; celibate; characterless; childless; coagulate; coarse; cold; colorless; common; commonplace; concrete; congeal; corn; crabbed; cracked; cure; cynical; dead; denude; desert; desolate; despoil; direct; discreet; dismal; divest; drain; drained; dreary; dry; dull; dusty; earthbound; effete; elephantine; embalm; empty; evaporate; everlasting; exhaust; exhausted; fade; fair; fallow; fine; fire; flat; flay; fleece; frank; freeze; fruitless; fume; gaunt; gelded; grating; green; gruff; guttural; harden; harsh; heavy; hoarse; hollow; homely; homespun; humdrum; husky; impassive; impotent; impoverish; inane; ineffectual; infertile; insipid; invariable; ironic; irradiate; jarring; jejune; jerk; kiln; kipper; leached; leaden; lean; lifeless; literal; marinate; metallic; milk; modest; monotonous; mundane; natural; neat; open; pale; pallid; parch; parched; pedantic; pedestrian; phlegmatic; pickle; pickled; plain; plodding; pluck; pointless; poky; ponderous; preserve; prolix; prosaic; prosy; pungent; pure; ragged; rasping; raucous; refrigerate; rough; rub; rude; rugged; rustic; rusty; salt; sandy; sapless; sarcastic; sardonic; satirical; scorch; scratchy; sear; season; sec; sere; severe; shear; shrivel; simple; singsong; skin; slow; smoke; sober; solemn; solidify; sour; soured; spare; spiritless; sponge; staid; stale; stark; sterile; stertorous; stiff; stodgy; stolid; straightforward; strangled; strip; stuff; stuffy; sun; superficial; swab; tart; tasteless; tedious; thick; thirsty; throaty; tinny; towel; unadorned; unaffected; uncultivated; uneventful; unfruitful; unimaginative; uninspired; uninventive; unoriginal; unornamented; unplowed; unpoetical; unproductive; unripe; unromantic; untilled; unvarnished; unvarying; vapid; virgin; waste; wasted; waterless; weariness; weazen; wipe; wither; wizen; wooden