Sentence examples for proved dry from inspiring English sources

Here, as elsewhere, chicken proved dry and banal.

Two recent wells, one drilled by Britain's BG Group and the other by America's Exxon Mobil, proved dry.

Amid a generous selection of homemade cakes, an ultra creamy Napoleon and a cheesecake were classic, if rich, but a white chocolate cake with strawberry filling proved dry.

Thick fillet of beef was standard, but breast of guinea hen proved dry, as did a tight lump of duck breast, which was inelegantly plunked whole in the center of a plate of wild rice.

Trying to strike it rich, he hazarded what cash he had on risky investments--including three oil wells that proved dry.

At this step, patients with the A-profile or equivalents, proving dry lungs, are called FALLS-responders.

Polymeric silica hollow fiber sorbents are fabricated through the proven dry-jet/wet-quench spinning process.

Filet mignon proved chewy, dry and flavorless.

The kitchen's only misstep arrived with rolls of braciola (a special), which proved inedibly dry.

When 2001 proved as dry as the three years before, relief agencies announced that Afghanistan was on the verge of a vast humanitarian disaster.

"The Elementary Structures of Kinship" proved too dry, written too much for specialists, but "The Raw and the Cooked" and "From Honey to Ashes," though far less poetic than "Tristes Tropiques," elaborated on many of the insights present there.