dried
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dry.
half-dried
-
a word derived from
dried.
Example Sentences
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In the alley behind, flies are breakfasting on a patch of distinctly human-looking, half-dried feces.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2015
I ran and snatched up four bunches of the half-dried bear grass.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
When they reached the top of the house they found it overhung with rows of half-dried linen, held together with wooden clothespins and trembling to the fresh autumn breeze.
From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Abraham Cahan
She shook out her clinging clothes, and twisted up her half-dried hair, then sat down on top of the promontory and sang.
From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
The lake, however, is sacred no longer; shrunken in size and choked with rubbish, it is a stagnant pool in the winter, and an expanse of half-dried mud in the late spring.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
