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Six example sentences with desiccate, each labelled with its topic.
Salt packed around the duck legs desiccates the skin over two days, leaving it thin enough to crackle in the pan.
Cooking
Three rainless summers desiccated the peat until it crumbled underfoot and blew off the hillside in brown clouds.
Environment
Storerooms cut into dry Egyptian cliffs desiccated the grain sealed inside them, and archaeologists found kernels still intact.
History
The seed bank desiccates each sample in a jar of silica gel before freezing it for long-term storage.
Science
Decades of desert heat desiccated the tempera panels until the paint lifted from the wood in curling flakes.
Art
The Saharan wind desiccates a wet towel in twenty minutes, so travelers rinse their clothes and hang them at noon.
Travel
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