Bone Dry

Word BONE DRY
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Hyphenation bone-dry
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Definitions and meanings of "Bone Dry"

What do we mean by bone dry?

Having no trace of moisture. adjective

Very dry; as dry as a bone.

Without a trace of moisture. adjective

Totally dry; without moisture. adjective

Without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone adjective

Without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone adjective

Totally dry; without moisture.

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The word "bone-dry" in example sentences

The action is unremarkable, the comedy is simply not funny, and the bone-dry story-line is painfully generic with literally no payoff at the end. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Bodegas Emilio Lustau Light Fino My colleague Kevin compared this bone-dry, almost flinty Fino from a famed house to beef jerky—meaning it has the same appealingly snappy saltiness. ❋ Lettie Teague (2011)

Examination of the chalk springs that feed the upper Ouzel shows they are still flowing, so the river will not run dry, but with no substantial rain in months and bone-dry cracked ground across the whole area there will be no run-off from rain. ❋ Unknown (2011)

These are still completely bone-dry wines, but their youthful veneer of austerity has been peeled back and the wines are deep, complex and generously balanced, with the weight and authority of a top premier cru or grand cru white Burgundy and at least the same level of complexity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The group constructed many buildings in Eldorado, including a multi-story limestone temple, which sits on an expansive green lawn that appears otherworldly against the bone-dry, brown landscape. ❋ Russell Gold (2011)

Pickin 'and grinnin': Man-of-many-talents Steve Martin is helping bluegrass music expand beyond its niche audience, judging from the huge crowd that packed the Gentilly Stage area Thursday to hear him play banjo with the Steep Canyon Rangers quintet from Asheville, N.C. Nearly all of the 15 songs were Martin originals, most from his Grammy-winning The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo album, and he spiced them up with interludes of bone-dry humor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The countries agreed among other things to set up a permanent coordination mechanism for their countries' liaison people in the Sahel region — the vast, bone-dry stretch of land just below sub-Saharan Africa that includes countries such as Mauritania, Niger, Mali and Chad. ❋ Unknown (2011)

While the beer is bone-dry it is not overwhelming at all and the nose is the onlyaspect of the beer that holds it back from being an all-time great. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Made from the Palomino grape variety from the Bodegas Borbon in the Cadiz province of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, this bone-dry sherry has been produced allowing the yeast flor to develop on the surface, preventing any undue oxidation and allowing it to mature year round. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Most of the fires have been in bone-dry Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Woolf was one of those authors whose "paper rivers" formed the origin of Laing's watery obsessions, and there's an intriguing correspondence between "sources": rooting in "a copse of hazel and stunted oak" to find the indefinite "clammy runnel" of the Ouse, and shuffling among original manuscripts in a bone-dry archive. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It was every bit the majestic frontier town that I had imagined, occupying a sweeping, bone-dry peninsula set between long lines of ashen cliffs and a sea the color of rusty tap water. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The creek that is normally the water source for that course is bone-dry. ❋ John Paul Newport (2011)

Only riesling can give the same breathtaking degree of complexity and profundity at such a wide variety of sweetness levels, from bone-dry Savennières or Vouvray Sec, all the way up to dizzyingly magical bottles of sweet dessert wines from Montlouis, Vouvray, Quartes de Chaumes or Bonnezeaux. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Texas is enduring its most severe drought since the 1950s, with bone-dry conditions made worse by weeks of triple-digit temperatures in many cities. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If I were serving them on holiday, it would always be with a bottle of bone-dry Provençal rosé. ❋ Will Lyons (2011)

Rye can balance out sweetness, curtail lingering bitterness, and create a bone-dry finish. ❋ Food Republic (2011)

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