bone-dry leaves are a fire hazard.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

There was a little cement pond which was bone-dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret at the Crossroads]

And, on the ground, the scorched land is bone-dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 16, 2007] Reference

ROMANS: In Texas, grass fires raged across bone-dry land.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2006] Reference

LEMON: A bone-dry summer leads to a bone-dry fall as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2007] Reference

The inferno is feeding on acre after acre of bone-dry brush.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2009] Reference

Found drowned to death in a bone-dry bathtub, covered in bruises.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 18, 2009] Reference

A wildfire raging right now in bone-dry Orange County, California.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2007] Reference

Off the highway toward some bone-dry cienaga, a nameless desert road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spin] Reference

The Kabul River, without its yearly spring floods, had turned bone-dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Splendid Suns]

And so much of the United States really needs that, the bone-dry areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2007] Reference

Fires are racing across the bone-dry mountains of San Bernardino County.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2009] Reference

Flames, fueled by Santa Ana winds, spreading through bone-dry brush land.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2007] Reference

The world sees beautiful beaches, but residents live in a bone-dry desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2008] Reference

The fires are racing across the bone-dry mountains of San Bernardino County.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2009] Reference

She is covered in bruises before she ` s found drowned in a bone-dry bathtub.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 8, 2009] Reference

At the end of the day, we go for a walk in the rain forest, which is bone-dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gasping Forest] Reference

Juan poured me a glass of water, but after each sentence, I was bone-dry again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dennis Perrin: My Yearly Kos Diary] Reference

I looked down at the bone-dry concrete platform, no signs of any rain whatsoever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevermore] Reference

A bone-dry nation means a life full of sorrows without any chance of drowning them.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Toasts] Reference

HARRIS: Scorching heat and low humidity, a recipe for disaster in the bone-dry west.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2007] Reference

A bone-dry stand-up comic, Katz created the series with multimedia animator Tom Snyder.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Up, Doc? Don't Ask] Reference

As above, the mould is made from a model, which is either bone-dry clay or biscuit clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [6. Mouldmaking and Plaster of Paris] Reference

John has a brainstorm and puts three drops of the liquid in the spotless, bone-dry sink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pesky ants offer newfound perspective] Reference

We are talking about two bone-dry coastal villages that no rat could find a place to hide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abukar Arman: Piracy, Geopolitics, and Private Security] Reference

Fruits are dried only until leathery, whereas vegetables are dried until they are bone-dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Step in Canning] Reference

After the corn is bone-dry it should, like all other vegetables and fruits, be conditioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Step in Canning] Reference

Engobes for bone-dry application need to have less shrinkage, so that they adhere to the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [10. Decoration] Reference

Rainstorms have been raging throughout Israel in the past week, after a warm and bone-dry winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilana Teitelbaum: Praying For Rain in Jerusalem] Reference

DOBBS: Dangerous bone-dry drought conditions fueling new large wildfires across the country tonight.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2005] Reference

Fire and wind, a volatile combination that's consumed almost 500,000 acres of bone-dry Georgia and Florida.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 14, 2007] Reference

Rain did finally come, though, to bone-dry parts of Georgia, as well as Tennessee and other areas in the south.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2007] Reference

Strong winds and bone-dry conditions fueled the massive flames, destroying several homes and forcing residents to flee.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2006] Reference

Anyway, reports Rattazzi, the main house was built on such high land that it remained bone-dry as the pond rose last summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Hamptons Whodunit] Reference

Folks battened down the hatches for Barry to be sure, which is to bring much-needed rain to bone-dry Florida and parts of Georgia.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2007] Reference

A combination of bone-dry terrain and strong winds has created a perfect storm, if you will, for fires to spread across the southeast.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2008] Reference