dry
- adjective
- /draɪ/
- I love sweets, but I can't stand dry cakes that lack frosting.
- dry toast
- dry bread
- dry turkey
Dan Gore eating apples and Alan Yang eating dry granola.
- Dan Gore eating apples and Alan Yang eating dry granola.
- If you if you eating dry, you eating dry salad.
- So I like saucy things, I don't like dry food.
- I don't eat cereal, but that dry as dessert the odd time I think it's delish.
Examples
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The bread was so coarse and dry her jaws ached; it settled in her stomach, a heavy lump.
Fiction book (1992) -
Bernie, bring me some dry toast.
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And then the dry cake is one of my least favorite things.
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Chicken was good, a touch on the dry side, but that was on opening day.
Blog text (14) -
Mm, sorry, the chicken's a little dry.
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I love sweets but I hate dry cakes.
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I ordered prime rib and a triple whiskey, and you ordered dry toast.
Fiction book (1998) -
The turkey's a little dry, isn't it?
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At the end of the line, she snatched up three slices of dry white bread, slipping them into a pocket.
Fiction book (1995) -
Reclining on the carpet, she spent her days having her back massaged, chewing on dry fruit.
Fiction book (1993)
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Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A very cold solid made from carbon dioxide used to keep things frozen and make white fog
- Specialized
A place where workers empty the water so they can build or fix a ship's bottom
- Specialized
A way of painting that uses very little paint to make a rough, scratchy texture
- Specialized
A small battery with a moist paste inside that gives power to devices like a flashlight
- Offensive
An attack in which someone hides and kills another person by surprise in a lonely place
- Specialized
A small source of electricity used in devices like radios or flashlights that has no liquid
- Archaic
A way to make photographs on glass plates with a thin light-sensitive layer
- Specialized
A print made by scratching a metal plate with a hard needle to make dark, soft lines
- Specialized
Dead skin and flesh that become dry and dark when blood flow stops, often in a toe or foot
- Specialized
Severe pain in the empty hole after a tooth is removed when the blood clot falls out
- Specialized
A small insect that lives in and eats dry wood not touching the ground
- Specialized
A portable structure that sinks so a ship can enter and then lifts it out for repair
- Specialized
A unit used in the United States to measure dry things like grain
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Etymology
Dry for food means 'served without sauce' and comes from the basic sense 'not wet'. So dry toast or dry cereal is eaten without butter, jam, or sauce.