dry land

How To Use dry land In A Sentence

• He was a big man and a strong, the sightliest of men and a good skald; and when he was fully grown he fared between sundry lands, and was well accounted of wherever he came. The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875
• But once on dry land, it was quickly back on course.
• Most of the crops are from dry land including groundnuts, sunflower, green gram, sesame and soya.
• Beyond this on dry land, black, northern red, and “scrub” oaks can get established, along with pitch pine, beach plum, and bayberries. The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
• That ocean, Bowman realized, must be very shallow; even if there was no dry land, there must be many reefs almost breaking the surface, to produce that endless susurration. Tin
• Plants had been growing on dry land for at least 75 million years, but they were little more than mosses and liverworts growing on damp ground, along with some primitive vascular plants with stems a few inches high.
• The Canaries were the nearest bits of dry land to us, but Mr Jellicoe, the third mate, reckoned that they were a good hundred and fifty miles away, and dead to wind'ard; so it was useless for us to think of reaching them in a boat with her gunnels awash, and not a scrap of food or a drop of fresh water in her. Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru
• I'm no sailor and I couldn't wait to reach dry land.
• A case in example is dry lands in Vidarbha (Maharashtra) where the size of the average holding was 3.3 hectares, but the productivity was abysmally poor due to lack of irrigational facilities. Rahul Gandhi Seeks Flexible Norms to Implement Waiver of Farm Loans
• In an attempt to find dry land they shot off threads of silk into the wind and glided through the air, a phenomenon called ballooning. Times, Sunday Times