drying-out

Ballpoint pens also generally employ a “push” or a “twist” mechanisms as there is not such a need to worry about the nib drying-out.

Nib Titanium | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

At the time he was actually trying to quit drinking, so he joined the legions of other drying-out northern Michigan drunks who reckoned the best way to be sure they were genuinely sober was to test themselves every single day by getting other people drunk.

The Hanging Tree Bryan Gruley 2010

As the first novel follows characters on the steamy jungles of Venus, In the Courts of the Crimson Kings is set in the decaying foundations of a very old, drying-out Mars.

MIND MELD: The Best Genre Related Books/Films/Shows/Games Consumed In 2008 (Part III) 2008

"This thick sequence of rocks appears to be showing different steps in the drying-out of Mars."

Multi-Layer Mars Parfait Provides Environmental Record | Universe Today 2010

When I was growing up, there was one thing that would guarantee my Egyptian mother's bad mood: the drying-out of her beloved kohl wands.

Kiss and make-up: kohl 2010

Many are students or the marginally employed; not long ago, he says, the ranks of clinical-trial participants were often made up mostly of drying-out drunks and the homeless, but the burgeoning of the CRO business and the need for ever more patients has resulted in sweetened compensation.

Helping Science, Making Money By Scott Gottlieb 2009

A better solution is to pop your soap out of the molds and leave them under a fan for a few days to help wick off excess moisture and speed the drying-out process of the soap.

Archive 2007-07-01 Anne-Marie 2007

A better solution is to pop your soap out of the molds and leave them under a fan for a few days to help wick off excess moisture and speed the drying-out process of the soap.

Beeswax in Melt & Pour Anne-Marie 2007

Consider making two or three Artificial Vaginas to have ready in case one requires drying-out time

Le Petite Mort, and a Special Hat 2006

Since Alcoholics Anonymous was absent from our part of the world in those years, and my family could not have afforded any of the generally ineffective drying-out clinics of the time, real help for my father could only have come from his belief in the God whom he implored for help, from my mother, his minister, and his own tenacious will to quit.

Letter to a Godchild Reynolds Price 2006