Example sentences for: dries

How can you use “dries” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • What makes "sanitary wiping paper" (to use the wonderful cadences of marketing-speak) stretchy and absorbent is a process called "creping": A metal blade removes the paper as it dries from the steel cylinder on which it was formed, lowering the paper's density.

  • Billabong is first recorded in the 1830s in southeastern New South Wales as a name in the Wiradhuri language for a watercourse which flows after rain, and hence any backwater, blind creek, or anabranch left in the arm of a river, a pool which is left when the connecting stream dries up.

  • When you throw the die to resolve a battle and a 6 comes up, an "apocalyptic event"--Euphrates dries up, sky turns blood red interfering with air units, etc.--occurs.

  • Laundry on the line dries in a matter of minutes rather than hours or days.

  • That's why the discipline to move on when the market becomes oversaturated--or, alternatively, when the market simply dries up--is a necessary discipline.


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