desiccating
- present participle of desiccate.
Example Sentences
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He says they were "like plastic...you could almost knock them...they were black, desiccating, clenched".
From BBC ● May 21, 2024
Thank you, Bill Burr, for sparing me from suffering through more than 90 minutes of Bill Maher’s desiccating “Club Random” podcast.
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
The decline of the Salton Sea, however, does not mean Southern California will forever be protected against a San Andreas earthquake as long as that area is desiccating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Hotter conditions have also caused more moisture to evaporate from the landscape, desiccating croplands and causing millions of livestock to starve.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023
Composed of heat-resistant plastic and chemically treated cork layers, and equipped with a desiccating unit to keep the air bone-dry, the insosuits could withstand the full glare of Mercury’s sun for twenty minutes.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
