bone-dry

How To Use bone-dry In A Sentence

• I personally try and keep it simple with a Grande, skim, triple, bone-dry cappuccino, which is Starbuck's English for the kind of cappuccino you'd get at the Rome airport. Mark Strausman: A Chef's-Eye View of Starbucks
• The excess engobe is removed with a metal scraper after it sets, or with sandpaper after the pot is bone-dry. 10. Decoration
• The lobotomizing trio of bone-dry Sapphire martinis downed in response to said news? Georgia’s Kitchen
• 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. To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing – review
• Searching for the source, Joanna spotted a young woman sitting on a tumbled boulder in the middle of the sandy, bone-dry riverbed. DEVIL'S CLAW
• Sheets, towels, and tea-towels will need no ironing if they are folded carefully and put through the rollers before they are bone-dry.
• The colon was ablaze, like a bone-dry bale of hay soaked in gasoline and then set afire.
• The badlands are significant due to the plethora of fossils and dinosaur bones that have been recovered in the slowly eroding hoodoos, narrow valleys and bone-dry coulees.
• Yet 2005 is shaping up as a return to those horror conditions, with dams bone-dry and sun-baked farmlands cracking.
• His performance is all sly looks and bone-dry readings, held together by a general air of barely contained exasperation at the antics of the fools and knaves who surround him.