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Example sentences for "dried"

Lexicographically close words:
dribbling; dribe; driblet; driblets; drie; drier; driers; dries; driest; drieth
  1. I dried the blinding spray from my eyes, and, raising myself upon my elbow, looked about.

  2. She heard Vronsky's abrupt ring and hurriedly dried her tears-- not only dried her tears, but sat down by a lamp and opened a book, affecting composure.

  3. The spring his father and his teachers reckoned upon to turn their mill-wheels had long dried up at the source, but its waters did their work in another channel.

  4. That dried me up cold and sudden, for I had been acting youthful, and Curly had got responsible, maybe elderly with me, the same being ridiculous seeing how small the boy was.

  5. The house is built of sun-dried bricks, the ceilings of heavy beams supporting a flat roof of earth.

  6. That calaboose at La Morita is built of the usual adobe, sun-dried brick, with a ceiling of cactus sticks laid on beams to carry a couple of feet of solid earth.

  7. Take two quarts of dried split peas, the evening before you intend making the soup, and putting them into lukewarm water, let them soak all night.

  8. Dried split peas may be made into a puree in the same manner.

  9. Instead of the pepper, you may boil in it a hand full of dried currants, well picked, washed, and floured.

  10. Truly I felt as if the moisture of my body had all dried up, and not only my mouth but my whole frame was parched.

  11. You must attire yourself in all this and, to complete your toilette, here is a necklace of nuts, a band for your hair of burrs, and bracelets of dried beans.

  12. The poor queen, whom we will continue to call Agnella for fear of giving information to King Ferocious, rose slowly, dried her eyes and succeeded in somewhat overcoming her sadness.

  13. Only walking delegates of ideas filled my hollow skull like dried peas in a bladder.

  14. The chill wind passed over him and dried his tears, dried his heart.

  15. He dried the yard so that Rob and Ted Could play at marbles there, And he painted their cheeks a carmine red With the greatest skill and care.

  16. Well my idea was to lay in a great store of dried provisions against the time when I should be ready to start for civilisation in my boat.

  17. The great drawback to these flutes was that the reed dried very quickly and became useless for musical purposes; so I was kept pretty busy, more especially as I did not want to create jealousy by refusing some and gratifying others.

  18. The strings of the bow we made out of my own hair; whilst those for the instrument itself were obtained from the dried intestines of the native wild-cat.

  19. This lagoon formed part of a big river at flood-time, but the connecting stretches of water had long since dried up for many miles both above and below it.

  20. Ah Gong was at that moment busily engaged in eating a dried herring, which the kind-hearted owner of the shop next door had given him; but that fact did not in the least interfere with his desire to see new sights.

  21. But my hair will look like dried hay tonight.

  22. Peg bustled away to gather up a dubious assortment of chairs, with backs and rungs missing, and in a few minutes we were in a circle around her roaring stove, getting dried and thawed out.

  23. Minky, who has followed them to their love-retreat, and has now come simperingly to offer them his little cut-and-dried remarks upon the fine day.

  24. They consist of only one sprig of dried lavender, thieved from the garden of the little Red House, and at which for five months he has not dared to look.

  25. It was the latter which suddenly arrested his steps with the odor of dried fish.

  26. The dried fish were banished from the tent-poles to long sheds especially constructed for that purpose.

  27. He knew that the low bark tents, or wigwams, of the Indians were hung with strips of dried salmon, and his whole being was new centered upon an attempt to stealthily procure a delicious morsel.

  28. Restoration was frequently necessary because of the fact that many of the older shrines had been built of sun-dried brick, which had not the same lasting power as the glazed brick dried in kilns used in later times.

  29. When the pods containing the cacao beans are ripe the beans are extracted, soaked in water and then dried in the sun.

  30. The beans are dried in the sun, on the largest plantations in drying machines.

  31. Yet so deep-seated is the fondness for dancing that after the smoke has cleared away and the dead or wounded victim been removed, it has often happened that the ladies dried their tears and men and women continued with the "baile.

  32. In elections for municipal councilmen and members of Congress there was occasionally an exception to the rule of having a cut and dried program and contests sometimes arose for a seat.

  33. Now, of course, girls can wash dishes better than can boys, I know that very well, and Susie had them all washed and dried while Jacko and Mugsie were sweeping and dusting the dining-room.

  34. They built with sun-dried or with burnt bricks, or where stone could be obtained they built with stone.

  35. They are built of sun-dried brick held together by a mortar of clay.

  36. Development of the Egyptian cut stone vault out of sun-dried brick construction, idem, pp.

  37. There is the same enclosing wall of sun-dried brick garnished with [Illustration: FIG.

  38. It was surrounded by a wall built of sun-dried brick, which was strengthened by rounded towers.

  39. It lies approximately north-east by south-west and has been enclosed by a wall of sun-dried brick, set with towers.

  40. She looked wistfully at me while she dried her china.

  41. I dried her face, whisking away a few bountiful drops that were clinging to her garments.

  42. I dried its face, took off its cap and cloak, and got its garments nicely straightened out, and then to complete the cure, for want of something better, gave it my long suffering watch to nibble.

  43. Yes, once the fire got hold of the sun-dried pine of which the house was built the flames rushed up in great leaping columns.

  44. On its flat top he started a little fire of dried twigs, and one by one he dropped the slips of rice paper into the blaze.

  45. Molly sat down, took the pigeon back from him, and dried her eyes on its silky plumage.

  46. Must be dried before boiling because the cold water clinging to the stalks is likely to chill the boiling water too much in which the asparagus is to be cooked.

  47. Joseph pressing near in curiosity to one of these vendors, found him doing a brisk trade in dried toads, which he vowed would preserve the wearer from all infection.

  48. The heat still continued very great, and a parching east wind had been blowing for many weeks, which had dried up the woodwork of the houses till it was like tinder.

  49. Another had packets of dried herbs to which he gave terribly long names, and which he declared acted as an antidote to the poison.

  50. This piece is a specimen of the coloured glazes on biscuit in which, after the piercing of the pattern on the air-dried clay has been carried out, it is fired in the kiln before being glazed.

  51. Other specimens have been carved in the paste after it had been dried in the sun.

  52. The glaze of these pieces was usually applied upon the dried vessel by dipping or brushing or powdering, or, as some say, by blowing on with a tube.

  53. We have no definite information as to what was made, but we may fairly assume that in those remote times the vessels made were only course clay, rude in form, sun-dried or badly baked in an open fire.

  54. How skilful the potter must have been to carve such an intricate pattern from a sun-dried vase!

  55. It grew at the roots of trees, and many imitations of it in gilt wood, or even dried specimens of the fungus itself, were frequently used as decoration in the temples.

  56. They brought him to the fire, changed and dried his clothes, and gave him supper.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dried" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baked; dehydrated; dried; evaporated; mummified; parched; scorched; sear; seared; sere; shriveled; sunbaked; weazened; withered; wizened


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dried apples; dried beans; dried beef; dried blood; dried brick; dried bricks; dried fish; dried fruits; dried grass; dried leaves; dried meat