| What could have propelled a stale, bone-dry story to the top of the Internet's importance arbiter? |
| Sheets, towels, and tea-towels will need no ironing if they are folded carefully and put through the rollers before they are bone-dry. |
| The civil authorities of France would not be much use in helping the American army enforce a bone-dry order. |
| Fruits are dried only until leathery, whereas vegetables are dried until they are bone-dry. |
| The climate and the desert sands make the area bone-dry, yet the Dead Sea produces an abundance of moisture-retaining minerals. |
| The lights of small restaurants glimmered faintly on the bone-dry pavement. |
