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bone-dry
[ bohn-drahy ]
bone-dry
adjective
- informal.
- completely dry
a bone-dry well
- ( postpositive )
the well was bone dry
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of bone-dry1
Example Sentences
Officials believe the Palisades fire began around 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 7 as high winds sent flames racing over the bone-dry terrain.
It warned that there was typically a large volume of "dead, bone-dry vegetation across large areas of countryside" at this time of year which acts as a fuel for fire.
His bone-dry delivery makes it so that the sour is never too sharp and the sentimental is never too syrupy.
A fire had ignited high in the hills of Pacific Palisades, and smoke was massing over the bone-dry ridgeline.
A bone-dry summer left the landscape parched and primed to ignite as Santa Ana winds roared through the region at 80 mph.
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