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Example sentences for "dries"

Lexicographically close words:
driblets; drie; dried; drier; driers; driest; drieth; drift; drifted; drifter
  1. We are sweating all the time, but the sweat usually dries as fast as it forms.

  2. In old people this fluid sometimes dries up.

  3. When the perspiration dries from the skin, it leaves the waste and poisons behind.

  4. I told her that I had thought of our house, and had given orders to paint the walls, not in oil, for that was very costly, but in some color which dries quickly, and is exactly like oil.

  5. Tola repeated, "Which dries quickly;" and it is unknown why we both began to laugh, likely for the reason that our mutual delight and happiness could not find room in us.

  6. The soil along the shore is almost pure sand, and dries rapidly after rain.

  7. The spit of consumptive patients swarms with such germs, and when it dries and becomes dust the germs may be stirred up and breathed, or may mix with food, e.

  8. It soaks up moisture very rapidly, and dries with equal rapidity.

  9. This clay is soft at first, but it soon dries and turns quite hard.

  10. These insects are furnished with wings, so that they may be able to fly to another pool when food gets scarce, or when their pool dries up.

  11. It has a smell which is not disagreeable to many persons, a warm, sharp, bitterish taste; dries into a solid in the air, with the evaporation of its volatile oil.

  12. When the gilder has protected the burnished points, he dries the piece, and carries the heat high enough to expel the little mercury which might still remain on it.

  13. Thus, a compound is formed which possesses less attraction for water, and dries more equably from the openness of its body.

  14. This liquor evaporated and decomposed by alcohol, affords a bluish flocky precipitate, which is more soluble in water than common gypsum, and dries up in a purple-blue film.

  15. He then washes it in cold water, dries it with fine linen cloth, and concludes the operation by drying it slowly on a grating placed above a chafing dish of burning charcoal.

  16. He dries and rinses each time, and dries after the last operation.

  17. Such a varnish is very cheap, dries readily, adheres strongly, screens the fulminate from damp, and does not impair or counteract its detonating powers.

  18. He then plunges it, while still a little hot, in water acidulated with sulphuric acid, washes it, dries it, and gives it the burnish.

  19. The first five spontaneously flow from the branches and trunks of their trees, and sometimes from the fruits, in the form of a mucilage which dries and hardens in the air.

  20. What thou askest that shalt thou receive,' said Arthur, 'as far as the wind dries and the rain moistens, and the sun revolves and the sea encircles and the earth extends.

  21. We must just sit and wait till the sun comes out again and dries it.

  22. One advantage of making scenery here is that paint dries quicker than it did in the cellar of our dormitory.

  23. By riding fast, the wind soon dries our outer garments and the rain does not penetrate.

  24. When the canton flannel dries it may pull the back somewhat out of shape.

  25. Otherwise it dries rapidly and cracks along the joint.

  26. Pride is a weakness in the character; it dries up laughter, it dries up wonder, it dries up chivalry and energy.

  27. There is just one fluid which leaves that brown, hard coating when it dries upon woven cloth.

  28. In this chalky land of northern France the brittle soil dries out after a rain very quickly, and turns into a white powder where there are wheels to churn it up and grit it fine.

  29. After death it rapidly loses its brilliant hue, and dries of a dull oak-brown.

  30. Some of these are worm-casts thrown up by busy Annelids, working away in the sand to reach a lower and therefore a wetter level, as the upper stratum dries in the sun.

  31. Keep it in the sun till the lace dries on the bottle.

  32. It is well to get but a small box at a time, as exposure to the air somewhat dries and discolours it.

  33. By and by the sap dries up, and the insect changes its form and becomes winged.

  34. Never dries any, and for the last six years has stored none for winter.

  35. Never dries any, and only stores enough for winter use of family.

  36. Dries apples on Fay drier, made in Cincinnati, for home use only, and not satisfactory.

  37. Then moisten the papers with a sponge dipped in cold water, so that when it dries it will shrink and be tight.

  38. It wears remarkably well, dries quickly, and is excellent in all but one particular: it shows every spot of dirt.

  39. Then you will discover that wool dries quickly; that even when damp it soon warms comfortably to the body.

  40. Good moleskin dries well, and until it begins to give out is soft and tough.

  41. This Branch continues running amost as long as the Fruit would have been growing, and then it dries away.

  42. This they leave in the Sun 2 or 3 Days, in which time part of the juicy substance of the Tree dries away, and then the ends will appear full of small Threads.

  43. Water should gradually be lessened as growth ceases and foliage begins to yellow until the soil quite dries out, when it may be passed through a sieve and even the smallest bulblet secured.

  44. If the surface dries after the seeds sprout, they are likely to perish.

  45. It is the oil in the feathers that makes them smell bad, and when in constant use the heat of the body dries it up gradually; when beds or pillows have acquired this unpleasant smell, open them and put a few pounded cloves in each.

  46. Quick, superficial frying means tough stringy fibres; and a hot oven frequently dries the meat until it is not fit to eat.

  47. In summer again, when the great heat dries everything up, they are foddered with hay under shelter.

  48. Finally, there are many cases in which the spontaneous motion takes place in the contrary direction to what the theory considers as the body’s own place; for instance, when a fog rises from a lake, or when water dries up.

  49. The color dries very quickly, thus affording the artist a high rate of speed in working; and, secondly, the color dries precisely the same shade it had before being mixed.

  50. To this it may be simply replied that the water of this lake never dries up, and that the Axolotls have thus never been reduced to the alternative of undergoing metamorphosis or of perishing.

  51. Velasco expressly corroborates the statement that the Axolotl hitherto known from the great Mexican lake which never dries up (Lake of Xochimilco and Chalco), is only met with in its native habitat in the Siredon form, i.

  52. The skin of the naked Amphibia generally requires moisture, or else it dries up, and the creature is deprived of a necessary breathing apparatus, and often dies as rapidly as though some important internal organ had been removed.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.