How to use "dry" in a sentence

It is too dry to get down my throat so I take a mouthful of urine

But there are no tears - my body is too dry for tears.

The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break over in each

That winter, Fantine saved money by not having a fire, and developed a small, dry cough

With those words, she gave a little laugh and wave, grabbed some dry bread from the table and disappeared out of the door.

Valjean laid Marius down by the wall, where the floor was dry

The air of the tube platform is hot and dry, and the lights weak and unnatural.

It looked old and dry

She turned and ran down the street to her apartment block, and soon she was in the dry and rushing upward in the elevator

It was completely dry.

The sandwiches were dry, but I ate them without thinking

Mrs Danvers began to cry noisily, with her mouth open and her eyes dry.

Two blocks from her house, intending to buy a quart of milk and a loaf of whole-wheat bread, Tina stopped at a twenty-four-hour market and parked in the dry yellow drizzle of a sodium-vapor light, beside a gleaming, cream-colored Chevrolet station wagon

Suddenly Tina's mouth went dry and sour, and her heart thudded

The night was pleasantly cool and desert-dry

She thought: My God, I've been letting myself dry up! How could I have forgotten this!

Each was hung from the ceiling on a length of fishing line, and the upper end of each line was knotted to its own eyehook that had been screwed firmly into the dry wall

No dry-cleaning bills."

The skirts of the night were gathered around the Evans house, rustling in a dry desert wind.

Her mouth was dry and sour

"That's my middle name." He finished washing the first brandy snifter, rinsed it in hot water, and put it in the drainage rack to dry.

Tina was dry-mouthed, weak.

Tina watched, stunned, as flames leaped from a window of the house and ignited dry palm fronds on a nearby tree.

The door that connected the garage to the house opened without warning, but with a sharp, dry squeak of unoiled hinges.

It carried with it the odor of dry desert weeds and alkaline sand

A breath of wind stirred a dry tumbleweed and blew it across the blacktop.

Because it was important for the men who worked in the large room to have an unobstructed view of the smaller inner chamber at all times, four angled ceiling vents in both rooms bathed the glass in a continuous flow of warm, dry air to prevent condensation and clouding

For the most part, Reno's streets were clean and dry in spite of a recent snowfall, though occasional patches of black ice waited for the unwary motorist

Bizarrely, the unplowed trail had led them to a paved road; steam rose from it, and sections of the pavement were even dry.

As they ascended into the night, snow began to fall hard and fast in sheets of fine, dry flakes.

The flakes were hard, dry, and granular; they hissed like driven sand across the Perspex windscreen.

She struggled to contain her tears, but she needed all her willpower to keep her eyes dry.

It was some time before I could get to my feet again and put on some dry clothes

There were people of every class and profession, but they were all dusty; their skins were dry, their lips black and cracked, and all of them looked very afraid.

I changed into dry clothes, lit a candle, and wrote down the conversation

The vestry was full of dry papers