There is fire actually burning on a dried-out lake bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2007] Reference

Good-bye to empty milk cartons and dried-out lunch meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ties That Bind...And Gag!]

Around it were the dried-out husks of three pregnant women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost King]

She stops at the dried-out husk of a saguaro, and sits down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing Acts]

In this fine season it would be a nest of dried-out grasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilgrim of Hate]

We were six dried-out travesties of men shuffling, shuffling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]

And we're talking about things like dried-out Christmas trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2005] Reference

Professor Michael smoothed his thin, gray hair with his dried-out hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference

You've got already dried-out vegetation because of the ongoing drought.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2007] Reference

'There were trees, and we have crossed a score of dried-out stream-beds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Sword Of Power]

We'll take you to the dried-out Sunshine State in about 15 minutes from now.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 13, 2007] Reference

Diyala's dried-out agricultural canals are a particular concern for the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraqi Insurgents Prove Elusive] Reference

The left-hand one had a few ancient crocks of dried-out ink on its lower shelf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conqueror's Moon]

After a moment, he walked back down along the dried-out section of the lakeshore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chaos Balance]

The forest had given way to the cunucu again, the dried-out veld with thornbushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tumbleweed]

Bonus detail: There are dried-out patches of sneeze spray all over Abe's monitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microserfs]

  Even the dried-out August grass seemed freshened, shot with a new burst of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [No One Is Safe] Reference

"It is so simple, young master wizard," croaks the dried-out wizard called Fiedner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Engineer]

His sharp, dried-out features repelled me twice as much as they had ten years before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vigorish] Reference

Yochi Dreazen/WSJ U.S. troops survey one of many dried-out agricultural canals in Diyala.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraqi Insurgents Prove Elusive] Reference

Our last hope of finding the ranch was in a dried-out river channel, overgrown with trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference

Mud huts, dried-out gullies and patches of rough terrain, places for the enemy to hide and shoot.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2006] Reference

Having no words in his dried-out mouth to coax her with, Welly left her there and kept on walking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Do You Say I Am] Reference

It was the size of a man's head, wrinkled and grey as dried-out leather, knobbed with thick spikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet of the Damned] Reference

Light em up like a dried-out christmas tree by truthtruffle on Monday, Mar 10, 2008 at 2: 20: 15 AM.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Senators Demand Audit Of Iraq Oil Revenue, After U.S. Invests Billions In Reconstruction, GAO Asked To Investigate Where] Reference

Dwelling on the past, even for one concert, can quickly turn our living kings into dried-out mummies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hank Shteamer: I Want My Mummy: Fighting Nostalgia on the New York Jazz Scene] Reference

Or about some blackened, dried-out body of a sentient being, sixty million years dead, floating free in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Planet Strappers] Reference

We see some dried-out elk horns along our trail; though it is doubtful if elk get this far south at present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference

A closer look, however, reveals expanding patches of gray and brown as beetle infestations kill off entire dried-out mountainsides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chip Ward: Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West] Reference

It is almost incredible that the human bowel can hold so much old dried-out, nasty stuff as is stored up in these constipated bowels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

If this is continued over a period of time a dryness of the wood and other tissues occurs that causes death of the dried-out portions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947] Reference

Officials say flooding the over-heated bogs is the only way to prevent the dried-out land from catching fire in scorching temperatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flooding Russia's Peat Bogs] Reference

The roots were some fifteen centimeters long and looked like dried-out little men with spindly legs and complete with long thin penises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tumbleweed]