Sentence examples for bat dry from inspiring English sources

The symptoms caused by this class of plant are well known, and a mnemonic is taught in medical school to identify them: Mad as a hatter, blind as a bat, dry as a bone, red as a beet.

"Once bat droppings dried, they easily crumbled into dozens of tiny fragments that reflected our lamps' light in a rainbow of colors," he writes, of one of his initial cave expeditions.

We quantified the flight metabolism in three treatments: dry bats, wet bats and no rain, wet bats and rain.

It was like batting on drying Plasticine.

Wet bats encountered higher flight metabolic rates than dry bats (no rain: 12.9 ± 6.0 ml CO2 mean1; mean rank difference = 12.5, p < 0.01; with rain: 13.6 ± 5.4 ml CO2 mean1; mean rank difference = 11.8, p < 0.01; figure 2).

But against Shahadat Bresnan hung his bat out to dry.

A hard, dry bat with just the right amount of water content has helped Suzuki become one of the best hitters in the game.

If England can dismantle the remainder of the Australian batting order on Thursday, they could yet escape with the first innings lead they were targeting when captain Alastair Cook won the toss and chose to bat on a dry pitch hardened by several days of sunshine.

Strauss had looked reasonably untroubled, leaving the ball well outside his off stump, but having hit his seventh boundary and moved within sight of a half century, he rather left his bat out to dry outside the off stump and was caught behind in the fourth full over after the interval.

A random sample of dry bat guano, ≈100 g, was collected in a sterile plastic bag weekly from the main cave at KCP-NHA from September 2006 through August 2007.

Has Bairstow the subtlety to tailor his batting style to dry, dusty tracks, a preponderance of spinners and a couple of vultures constantly hovering a few feet away?