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How to use dryness in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Dryness means a lack of moisture. Example: “The mountains block the passage of rain-producing weather systems and cast a "shadow" of dryness behind them.”

Examples of dryness by meaning

nounA lack of moisture.

  • Khorana added that this is especially true of cleansers that feature surfactants like sodium lauryl sulfate, as this class of ingredients can cause “dryness, irritation and eczema.”2023 December 6, Jessica DeFino, “Too Many Products Can Stress Out Your Skin. Here’s How to Scale Back.”, in The New York Times

More sentences with dryness

  • The mountains block the passage of rain-producing weather systems and cast a "shadow" of dryness behind them.From the entry shadow
  • Cracks in the skin resulting from dryness can also increase the risk of skin infections, Dr.2025 February 10, Monica Haider, “Dermatologists share how to treat dry skin”, in CNN, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2025. From the entry tyler
  • Transfer the acetone washings to a tared beaker and evaporate to dryness at ambient temperature and pressure.1974 May, James O. Dealy, Arthur M. Killin, “Appendix B: Sampling and Analytical Techniques”, in Engineering and Cost Study of the…. From the entry desiccate
  • Frequent thirst, with a scrapy dryness in the throat, as if after making a night of it.1939, J. W. Ward, Unabridged Dictionary of Sensations as If. From the entry scrapy
  • He talked like a book; his talk had the clarity and dryness of a book.1936 March, John Cheever, “In Passing”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, Boston, Mass.…. From the entry talk like a book
  • One could taste the dry salt on one's lips, feel its powdery dryness upon the throat and ear.2018 July 3, Lawrence Durrell, Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume Two: Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, and Spirit…. From the entry skirl
  • Finally, they were deproteinated by methanol precipitation, evaporated to dryness and together with donor and acceptor lyophilizates subjected to subsequent analysis.2015 December 31, “Insights into the Mechanism of Action of Bactericidal Lipophosphonoxins”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry lyophilizates
  • An earnest lawman given to fussy detail, constitutionolatry, and dryness of touch, he drily allowed Pierce to keep the field.1980 winter, Walter N. Trenerry, “Last Campaign of the Civil War: Aged Minnesota Veteran Takes On the GAR”, in Minnesota History, volume…. From the entry constitutionolatry
  • The absolute empty dryness of such an existence.1961 April 1–3, John Fowles, “Childlessness”, in Charles Drazin, editor, The Journals, volumes I (1949–1965), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A.…. From the entry miserlily
  • “Can you come over to the wrong side of the tracks?” she asked, an amused dryness underscoring the delivery of that question.2011, Douglas Kennedy, The Moment, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 173. From the entry wrong side of the tracks
  • The Victorian Turkish bath was really a re-invention of the Roman bath, as the dryness of the air distinguishes it from the orignal hammams.2008, Efterpi Mitsi, “Private rituals and public selves”, in Teresa Gómez Reus, Aránzazu Usandizaga, editors, Inside out: women…. From the entry Victorian Turkish bath
  • Also, one cannot get the full effect without other systemic symptoms ranging from tachycardia for the sympatheticomimetics to dryness of the mouth in the case of the parasympatheticolytics.1958, Clinical Symposia, volume 10, page 194. From the entry parasympatheticolytic
  • Evaporate 25 cc. of orthophosphoric acid solution to dryness, setting the burner beneath the dish and adjusting the flame so that the tip does not quite touch the dish.1918, Herbert Royl Smith, The Laboratory Study of Chemistry, page 124. From the entry orthophosphoric acid
  • All fractions were concentrated to near dryness under vacuum (Speed Vac rotary concentrator, Savant Instruments, Farmingdale, NY) and redissolved in 0.5 ml of 50 mM pH 8 buffer, for bioassay.1997 May 9, H. T. Alborn et al., “An Elicitor of Plant Volatiles from Beet Armyworm Oral Secretion”, in Science, volume 276, number 5314…. From the entry octadecyl
  • As the young Cuban tasted his flesh, his tropical appetite long depressed by the North American dryness suddenly revived, and brought to his mind the thought of his long famishment.1957, James Purdy, “The Pupil”, in The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy, New York: Liveright, published 2013, page 682. From the entry famishment

Meaning of dryness

  1. noun A lack of moisture.
  2. noun The degree to which something is dry.

Full definition of dryness

Questions about dryness in a sentence

How do you use dryness in a sentence?
Dryness is used as a noun. For example: “The mountains block the passage of rain-producing weather systems and cast a "shadow" of dryness behind them.”
What is a short sentence with dryness?
“The absolute empty dryness of such an existence.”
What does dryness mean?
Dryness means a lack of moisture.

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