dried
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dry.
well-dried
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a word derived from
dried.
Example Sentences
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“Sitting cross-legged like your hips won’t snap like a well-dried wishbone.”
From The Verge ● Feb. 6, 2019
The cradle bottoms were covered with fine, soft, well-dried lichen or reindeer moss, over which a little cotton sheet was spread.
From The Land of the Long Night by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu
By the end of the week the hay, well-dried and of excellent colour, was all under cover; the men stretched themselves and took long breaths, knowing the fight was over and won.
From Maria Chapdelaine by W. H. Blake
I covered this on both sides with pieces of strong cloth saturated with grease from the carcases of birds, and then covered the whole with well-dried seal-skins, which I had made impervious to wet.
From The Little Savage by Frederick Marryat
Again, whip-cord, well-dried, may be hung against a wainscot, a small plummet affixed to it, and a line drawn at the precise spot it falls to.
From Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
