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Definition of bone dry in English: bone dryadjective Completely or extremely dry. 干透的,十分干的 the springs failed this year, leaving the riverbed bone dry Example sentencesExamples - The road was now bone dry and we lost visibility totally behind dust clouds whenever a vehicle passed.
- She says the tank - which had been full hours earlier with enough fuel to keep the company's nine wagons on the road for a month - was absolutely bone dry.
- At one point it was pouring with rain on one side of the bus, and bone dry on the other.
- Occasionally, when I have travelled into York when there has been a frost, the roads have been bone dry with no white frost nor ice on the road.
- Australia's long hot summer shows no sign of easing up, with soaring temperatures and bone dry conditions sparking bushfires across the country.
- Riesling is one of the most malleable and versatile grapes, producing wine that runs the spectrum from bone dry to lusciously sweet.
- Everything was bone dry, and the cedar breaks below the escarpment held not a single robin, waxwing, solitaire, or bluebird.
- ‘Through winter we try and keep the citrus plants dry, without being bone dry, since they aren't growing,’ says Russell.
- Despite the incessant rain that fell in the build up to the game the pitch was bone dry and it allowed both sets of players to play good football.
- When water is the new currency and the US is bone dry, the Canadians will be the players and decisionmakers.
- There was a lot of rain in the area early last week but the fairways were absolutely bone dry by the week-end.
- For two weeks we had a black frost day and night with a strong east wind and then on February 2nd, when everywhere was bone dry at 3pm, the snow started to fall.
- I drove around the flower beds on the eastern side of the complex, but they were all bone dry.
- Our area is bone dry, and rain is desperately needed.
- Apparently Gallerus sportsfield is bone dry all the year round.
- I got up, turned on the humidifier - it's been bone dry for weeks, but the sound is soothing - and sure enough I fell asleep.
- To toast, place the spice mix in a bone dry frying pan and heat it until warm and you can smell the fragrance.
- A barrel for water was found in the field, but was bone dry, added Mr Orsborn.
- Farmers are drilling seed wheat into soil that six months ago was bone dry.
- The Beale sandhills would be an ideal location for a golf course as the landscape is ideal and it would be bone dry all year round.
Synonyms arid, parched, scorched, baked, burned, dried out, dried up, torrid, hot, sizzling, burning |