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  • adjective superlative form of dry: most dry.

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Examples

  • The birch bark, like the dryest of paper, burst into bright flame.

    First Version of To Build A Fire 2010

  • His Thesis, on the French Revolution, was noteworthy in college annals, not merely for its painstaking and voluminous accuracy, but for the fact that it was the dryest, deadest, most formal, and most orthodox screed ever written on the subject.

    SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010

  • I wore my summer suit pretty well through that winter, and the following summer experienced the longest, dryest spell of all, in the period when salaried men are gone on vacation and manuscripts lie in editorial offices until vacation is over.

    Chapter 26 2010

  • Ignoring this is likely to result in the dryest, most monotone and verbose speech ever given on this planet.

    Women Grow Business » Hooked On a Feeling: Marketing Your Intuition At Work 2010

  • Ignoring this is likely to result in the dryest, most monotone and verbose speech ever given on this planet.

    Women Grow Business » Search Results » francie 2010

  • I heard that we're going to have the dryest January ever, which is bad for water conditions.

    Frozen Friday kittenpie 2009

  • French Revolution was noteworthy in college annals, not merely for its painstaking and voluminous accuracy, but for the fact that it was the dryest, deadest, most formal, and most orthodox screed ever written on the subject.

    SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010

  • Ignoring this is likely to result in the dryest, most monotone and verbose speech ever given on this planet.

    Women Grow Business » Search Results » levin 2010

  • And Red Blade; either you have the dryest sense of humor I have ever encountered, or you are a nut.

    Bourjailly: Eric Clapton's Gun Sale 2008

  • It's raining, finally, after the second-dryest August on record and two or three days of absolutely stultifying humidity.

    funk's got a mind of its own. ashacat 2007

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