(1) He said drily: "Wherever there is a smell of oil, big powers start to look around and they find a reason to stay there.
(2) His book, My Story, contains harrowing tales, drily told, of the world of Glasgow policing in the 1890s, and of the politics of the police: he was a keen believer in the rights of the worker, and summarily dismissed (only to be reinstated by public demand).
(3) As Assange noted drily: "It's nicer, particularly given the frequency of equatorial despotism, to be tortured in the computer room."
(4) The magazine's editorial director, Henry Finder, says drily that Remnick 'has something very scarce in this city: an aura of sanity.
(5) One year we invited the police up from Elliot to let the fireworks off and they nearly killed half the people here, it was good fun,” he tells Guardian Australia drily.
(6) At the end of Black's three-hour presentation, his opposite number at MI6, Mark Allen , commented drily that it all sounded "rather blood-curdling".
(7) At the time of Miley's MTV performance, Cher was drily scathing: "I don't think it was her best effort."
(8) "I have not," he says drily, "been asked out of town, or for advice, for 40 years."
(9) "It's difficult to imagine a body less likely to assist the coroner in finding the truth," she said drily, suggesting the committee was engaged in a "politically motivated" delaying tactic.
(10) "UBL left his bodyguards in Tora Bora," one report states drily.
(11) However, if the show does cure humanity's ills, that's cool," he says drily.
(12) Mixing with the elite at the École Normale began another process of disenchantment, when he observed at firsthand that "cardinal axiom of French intellectual life", as he drily called it, "a radical disjunction between the uninteresting evidence of your own eyes and ears and the incontrovertible conclusions to be derived from first principles".
(13) As much as I'm passionate about London," he offers drily, "I'm not passionate about London policy."
(14) "A woman like me," she writes drily, "makes life difficult."
(15) Like Joyce, Flaubert can be drily comic, but humour is dependent on a precise selection of words, registers and double meanings, so I had to take an irony geiger count of every sentence – whose "right" translation lurked just around the corner.
(16) (“You came prepared,” Klára says drily when she sees my long-johns.)
(17) A sure way to get killed,” one of them says drily.
(18) (“It’s fucking brilliant,” Jane replies drily.)
(19) Twenty supporters with dementia and their carers attended last week’s home game (Leeds lost 1-0 to Brentford; “It can’t be all good news,” says Alan Scorfield, who is leading the initiative, drily.)
(20) Drily, Lord Justice Leveson sought to reassure Cameron over his earlier failure of memory, noting this demonstrated "the great value of wives, prime minister".
Dry
Definition:
(superl.) Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist.
(superl.) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.
(superl.) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.
(superl.) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.
(superl.) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
(superl.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.
(superl.) Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain.
(superl.) Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit.
(superl.) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring.
(a.) To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.
(v. i.) To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.
(v. i.) To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up.
(v. i.) To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
(2) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(3) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(4) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
(5) Mucosal drying medications and senile salivary gland atrophy seemed to contribute to the high frequency of sicca in this population with a lesser proportion of the subjects demonstrating previously undiagnosed Sjögren's and possible Sjögren's syndrome.
(6) Where the guanine content was more than or equal to 0.25% in the dry dust, mite numbers were higher than 10 mites per 0.1 g dust in 43 of the 44 samples.
(7) Reconstituted freeze dried allogeneic skin grafts contained virtually no blood, a phenomenon possibly analogous to the 'no reflow' phenomenon of microsurgery.
(8) In Humbo in Ethiopia , FMNR has re-greened 2,800 hectares: springs, dry for 30 years, are flowing again.
(9) 54% of patients in the rainy season were ELISA positive for RSV compared to 8.8% during the dry season.
(10) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
(11) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
(12) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
(13) The dried-specimen-teasing method appears useful, because of the ease of preparation of the specimens, its reproducibility, and the degree of visibility and preservation of cell surface structures and intraclonal relationships.
(14) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
(15) The concentration of prey and the ciliate mean cell volume, dry weight, and number per milliliter were determined at known growth rates.
(16) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(17) Percentage of dry tissue and protein concentration increased in parallel during the whole period.
(18) A clinical investigation was made between workers exposed to dried sewage sludge dust and age matched controls not exposed.
(19) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
(20) Patients with complaints of dry eyes and dry mouth but with no objective abnormalities served as control group.