Sentence examples for reach dry from inspiring English sources

The main characters are still drowning in that wake, scarcely bothered as to whether or not they ever reach dry land.

In Baker, just north of Baton Rouge, residents were rescued by boats or waded through waist-deep water to reach dry ground.

To forestall another sea exodus, the U.S. significantly increased its legal immigration quota for Cubans and instituted a "dry foot, wet foot" policy, under which those intercepted at sea by the Coast Guard are deported and those who manage to reach dry land are allowed to stay.

They told the border patrol they had paid £2,500 for the trip, but will now face automatic deportation, unlike Cubans who - as a legacy of a cold war era law - are permitted to remain in the US pending an immigration hearing if they manage to reach dry land.

Did he reach dry land again?

The Japanese soldiers infiltrated the American positions by wading through swamps at the western end of the MLR, but were detected before they could reach dry land.

Upon reaching dry land, the rat was met with cheers from the gleeful crowd.

But he'd recovered by the time he reached dry land.

I often imagine the sigh of relief the first salamander must have emitted as it reached dry land.

At sunrise on the eighth day, the passengers finally reached dry land, a remote beach at Puerto Ocós, a short walk from Guatemala's border with Mexico.

But from the moment the plane hit the water to the moment the last person reached dry land, scores of human dramas unfolded.