Sentence examples for rather dried from inspiring English sources

They were excellent until they came within touching distance of the bonus point for a fourth – and then they rather dried up.

So a reader of her diaries (of the five-volume complete edition, anyway) has to wade through a fair amount of rote record-keeping, panning for the nuggets: Brain rather dried up after 6 days strenuous London.

Two years ago, Eddie organised the Kent Green Hop Beer Fortnight (wherein beers are brewed with fresh rather than dried hops) to coincide with the harvest.

Sheriff Dion also suggested that the supply for patients could come from confiscated plants rather than dried stashes of marijuana, thus ensuring that it had not been laced with any harder drug.

Since Palace Pint beer will be brewed with "green hops" rather than the dried variety, the oiliness will give it a fresher and lighter flavour than dried hops does, "much like the difference in taste between fresh and dried herbs".

He flavored it with salted blue crab rather than pungent dried shrimp, delicate and strong.

Both cuisines are largely dependent on fish, fruit, coconut and herbs like curry leaf rather than the dried spices so familiar in northern Indian cooking.

Our tasters detected little evidence of juniper, perhaps due to the fresh Swedish berries used rather than imported dried fruits, but there's lots of liquorice bolstered by aniseed and two types of pepper.

And though fordite is crafted into eye-catching jewelry, it is not a gemstone — rather, it is dried paint that built up, layer upon layer, in factories that built automobiles long ago.

If you'd rather not use dried flowers, check out the artificial flower section in your craft store.

A field that was at one time regarded as rather cut-and-dried has taken on new vitality.