Sentence examples for basically dry from inspiring English sources

It's more ridiculous still when one considers that the federal government has been running short of funds to pay for and maintain its highways for years, and the federal highway trust fund is basically dry.

One part of Miguel's show that doesn't exactly square with his sensitive side involved him inviting girls from the audience onstage so that he could, basically, dry hump them one by one.

But orders from automakers and their suppliers have "basically dried up to nothing".

The government counted other securities — like private mortgage-backed securities — as corporate bonds, and those markets have basically dried up.

But with the advent of the iPhone and other smartphones, the market for feature phone components basically dried up, Mr. Vestberg said.

One way to go is to use a product like Drione -- a silica-gel-based insecticide that costs $30 a pound and basically dries the bugs up.

An attitude and unwillingness to change or accept different approaches limits your audience and basically dries up any work for you.

"It seals in a lot of information at the same time it's basically drying out a lot of inclusions that end up in the resin".

"A drought basically dries up the natural food availability and dries up the water sources, and you get them not only wandering farther, but often coming to urban areas to fulfill their daily needs," Jason Holley, a wildlife biologist supervisor for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said of bears facing shortages of berries or insects to feed on.

The finish is tart, fading slowly to reveal a bit of malt, but basically quite dry.

California is basically a dry state, subject to periodic severe droughts.