The climate and the desert sands make the area bone-dry, yet the Dead Sea produces an abundance of moisture-retaining minerals. |
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The third daughter thought for a while, then unslung her unwieldy bag, placed it on the bone-dry ground, and opened it. |
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All thirsted for adventure in the bone-dry world they'd found outside the big house. |
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Yet 2005 is shaping up as a return to those horror conditions, with dams bone-dry and sun-baked farmlands cracking. |
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However, Mars today is a cold world of windswept deserts, bone-dry riverbeds, and extinct volcanoes. |
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Also in his favor, the congressman has a dark, bone-dry sense of humor that plays well with media types. |
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What could have propelled a stale, bone-dry story to the top of the Internet's importance arbiter? |
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With my first stroke of terra sigillata on a bone-dry greenware porcelain pot I knew this was going to work. |
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Sheets, towels, and tea-towels will need no ironing if they are folded carefully and put through the rollers before they are bone-dry. |
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He's 72 now, and there's a certain cussedness to his bone-dry directorial style that suggests it's a job he should now do less. |
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Some are bone-dry and steely, others are lightly sweet. |
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In the Jerez region sherry comes bone-dry and chilled. |
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Often bone-dry, it can be gloriously sweet as well. |
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Unprecedented bone-dry forest litter ignited nearly 300 fires, forcing 1,000 people out of their homes and into shelters and hotels near Thunder Bay. |
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The wind grew in strength and twisted bone-dry dust into little swirls. |
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It's bone-dry, beautifully balanced, with good acidity. |
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There is a strong sense of rejection running through Satyricon's work: The medieval fantasy settings of the earliest releases quickly made way for bone-dry, pure emotion. |
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The badlands are significant due to the plethora of fossils and dinosaur bones that have been recovered in the slowly eroding hoodoos, narrow valleys and bone-dry coulees. |
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But according to Wheelabrator, each bone-dry ton of material burned generates approximately one megawatt-hour of electricity. |
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Following Brian's great escape, returning no-mark number three Nikki Grahame staged yet another of her bone-dry sobbing fits. |
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Plenty of bone-dry fruit has a little crunchiness to it through the mid-palate and a finish that is full and warming. |
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The traditional comic task of the American female has been to shock the male monomaniac into seeing how rich and multitudinous his bone-dry life could be. |
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This is a bone-dry, steely and minerally crisp dry white, with a smokey, gunflint quality. |
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