Sentence examples for bone dry from inspiring English sources

The term 'bone dry' is correct and usable in written English.
When used, the phrase typically means completely dry. For example, "The desert was so hot and dry, it was bone dry by midday."

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bone dry

adjective

Alternative form of bone-dry

  • When I went out to water my garden, the soil was bone dry. No wonder plants were drooping.

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It was bone dry.

Bone dry, actually.

Maybe not bone dry.

A bone dry Wimbledon?

Bone dry, we say.

And it is bone dry.

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It was a bone-dry, brilliant day.

Here, it's likely to be bone-dry.

Even the floor was bone-dry.

Some are bone-dry and steely, others are lightly sweet.

In the Jerez region sherry comes bone-dry and chilled.

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