| Fruits are dried only until leathery, whereas vegetables are dried until they are bone-dry. |
| After the corn is bone-dry it should, like all other vegetables and fruits, be conditioned. |
| The civil authorities of France would not be much use in helping the American army enforce a bone-dry order. |
| 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. |
| Yet 2005 is shaping up as a return to those horror conditions, with dams bone-dry and sun-baked farmlands cracking. |
| What could have propelled a stale, bone-dry story to the top of the Internet's importance arbiter? |
