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 coxswain took off his well-dried straw hat and saluted.

From The Black Bar by M.L.P.

Brush the top of the wreath with a little milk, containing teaspoon of sugar, over the top of the wreath, stick blanched, well-dried almonds, and strew thickly with crushed rock candy or very coarse sugar.

From Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Thomas, Edith

In the old baronial halls where: "The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide," Christmas was kept with great jollity.

From Yule-Tide in Many Lands by Bridgman, L. J. (Lewis Jesse)

But the moment Thomas went, Alec, had taken Annie to the forge to get her well-dried, before he would allow her to occupy her old place in the heap of spales.

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George