How to Use bone-dry in a Sentence

bone-dry

adjective

• Its births were triggered by rainfall in the bone-dry desert.
  — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
• If your mum is bone-dry, give it a good soaking first, then place the plant in the hole.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2024
• Then prop it up on its side until bone-dry to further guard against warping.
  — Alaina Chou, Bon Appétit, 17 Sep. 2024
• But starting with bone-dry potting mix can frustrate your plant from the start.
  — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 8 Apr. 2026
• Dry spells offer no challenge at all to this native of rocky and sandy, bone-dry soils.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 16 Aug. 2024
• If water continues to pool on top of bone-dry soil, then change the potting mix.
  — Rachel Gillett, Martha Stewart, 21 Jan. 2026
• Then, a bone-dry second half of the year and sparse early winter snow left the landscape parched.
  — Time, 22 Aug. 2023
• Allow the soil to go bone-dry before watering.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 11 Oct. 2025
• But the bone-dry cabin air and the altitude can really mess things up.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 17 June 2025
• And bone-dry vegetation means a new fire could ignite and any moment.
  — Brandon Miller, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
• This is Bungie executives trying to squeeze blood from a bone-dry stone.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Joy, even for something as stupid as bone-dry pant cuffs, is not typical Milhouse.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
• The resulting wines range from bone-dry and structured to fruity, floral, and slightly sweet.
  — Emily Price, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
• Stephen Freeland’s pumpkins are growing in 14 acres of bone-dry soil.
  — Asher Redd, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
• The nose suggested white florals, but the wine was bone-dry, with structured tannins and a yeasty note.
  — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
• The bone-dry air and meager plant coverage allows sunlight to heat up the desert surface.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 19 July 2023
• His mix of bone-dry humour and innate decency are the perfect foil for the film's welling emotions.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 21 Nov. 2024
• Winds gusting beyond 50 miles per hour at times howled over bone-dry fuels itching to ignite.
  — Murphy Woodhouse, NPR, 7 Aug. 2026
• These microorganisms can endure extreme heat and bone-dry conditions for years.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
• On a recent day, the culverts were bone-dry, the only rushing sound from the highway traffic nearby.
  — oregonlive, 9 June 2023
• No chills, only thrills this Halloween as Phoenix is in for a warm, breezy and bone-dry holiday evening.
  — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Oct. 2025
• Bacchus, bone-dry, slumps in the center of a stagnant green pool clutching fistfuls of limp grapes; none of the fountains is turned on.
  — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025
• Strong Santa Ana winds and bone-dry conditions combined to heighten fire risks.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
• That has kept local vegetation bone-dry and highly flammable well into what is supposed to be the rainy season.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2025
• Barely 65,000 people live in the vast, bone-dry region about the size of Spain.
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026
• Water rolled off the jacket during testing, and the fabric remained bone-dry to the touch afterward.
  — Grace Smith, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
• Hillsides were caked and brown, city streets were dotted with dead lawns, and wildfires raged throughout the state and region, feeding on bone-dry grass and shrubs.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
• This tongue-in-cheek intro is indicative of the longtime comedian’s bone-dry brand of humor.
  — Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2026
• My hair comes out of each wash whisper-soft and moisturized, a far cry from the wiry, bone-dry mop I was forced to work with pre-Jupiter.
  — Jake Smith, Glamour, 22 Feb. 2023
• The newcomers glanced at one another, then toward the turtles (still in their tank), and, finally, down at their bone-dry cups.
  — Marina Harss, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025