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How to use the word dries in a Sentence?

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Cotton traps moisture like a sponge. But silk is breathable. Its thinner than cotton and dries really fast, the ongoing hypothesis is that coronavirus is transmitted through respiratory droplets.

Patrick Guerra

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We obviously feel very strongly the hots are getting hotter, the dries are getting drier. When we're having heat domes, the likes of which we've never seen in our history.

Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If it were happening it would definitely damage the economy because if the dollar dries up in Afghanistan, it would put the central bank in a difficult situation, iran is in crisis and obviously the U.S. dollar is a real issue for them. They have to find it from anywhere they can at any cost.

Wahidullah Nosher

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Obviously, the quarterly results matter, but I care year-to-year about what they're doing, though you may be upset with all the cash they have, if there is a challenge across the world, or liquidity dries up, he's going to step in and take advantage.

Paul Lountzis

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Cardinal Richelieu

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Don’t run your hands through your hair or brush your hair excessively as it dries, this will cause the hair to frizz.

Edward Tricomi

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Use a blow-dry serum on your hair as it dries, add the serum and then comb through your hair – the serum will help cut down frizziness.

Edward Tricomi

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Getting him locked up dries up the outlet for this stolen merchandise.

Chesterfield County

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What we know about individuals, when it comes to disasters, is that they are highly influenced by media coverage and by the type of disaster, that is why so much money flows immediately after there is a certain type of disaster, and it dries up after a couple of days.

Bob Ottenhoff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was so emotional when I got my card in Spain and it still dries my throat now just thinking about it, after 10 years of trying you start doubting yourself and you think of giving up. I nearly gave up twice, the last time about a month before I got my card.

Matt Ford

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Water shines under the sun. But the sun dries it. (Eau brille sous soleil - Qui pourtant l’assèche.)

Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

Leonardo DaVinci

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.

Pope John Paul II

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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