Sentence examples for strange dried from inspiring English sources
On one side were shabby wooden stalls brimming with unrecognizable plant and animal products: medicinal herbs, strange dried flowers and the entrails of unknown creatures.
On 12 September 1683, a 200,000-strong Ottoman army that had laid siege to Vienna was routed, and as the sultan's forces fled, they left behind some bags containing strange, dried beans.
It was a strange dry coughing, half bark and half hack, which we later found out came from the roe deer that had taken up an early-morning vigil in the apple orchard.
"Half-idealism is the peritonitis of the soul," he wrote in "The Big Knife"; it was an epitaph both for his own self-deception and for what he called "the strange dry country" around him, which had fought a war for freedom abroad only to begin a witch hunt at home.
In practice it is possible to recognize Combretum immediately in the savanna on account of its simple, opposite or vertical leaves, and by its strange dry fruit with four membranous green-brown or reddish wings.
There is a strange similarity between the dried, spiky, ovoid fish and Van Gogh's flower.
Returning to New York after the funeral, my prior life felt like a dried out husk, strange and unrecognizable.
August thought of the severed appendages, pressed and dried, stacking up like currency in the teller drawer of some strange Martian bank.
In Afghanistan, dried to the bone by three years of drought and enduring a decreasing food supply, the sight of both fish and water was strange.
The dramatic layers of rock here appeared to be daubed with drying cow dung; strange because there aren't any cows.
