When taste buds become dry, they also become less receptive and your sense of smell is blunted, making subtle flavours nearly impossible to detect.

BBC: A possible end to plane food

They wanted to transfer it to Rosemont, where it would become a dry-dock casino floating in 2 feet of water, miles from the closest river.

FORBES: The Big Money Pit

At that price, PCs become commodities, bled dry of profits and, thus, new innovation.

FORBES: Malone's musing

It is a discovery of high concern say scientists because it demonstrates just how dry the Middle East can become during Earth's warm phases.

BBC: Cores reveal when Dead Sea 'died'

Their funereal views of our economic future are rooted in the notion that stateside investment will dry up such that wages and job opportunities will become less bountiful.

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Exxon in recent years has become increasingly risk averse in its wildcat exploration after a series of costly dry holes.

FORBES: Exxon's Declining Output A Sign Of The Times

Much of what is sold under the moniker "bagel" where I live is as bready and dry as toast before being toasted, which it must be to become palatable. (With those words, bagel cognoscenti will understand that I have just condemned these specimens to the same circle of hell reserved for blueberry bagels.) The new trend should be my salvation, but alas, it leaves me cold.

WSJ: Battle for the Bagel's Soul

But what causes one person to become sensitive to these indiscriminate antigens floating through the air, while another sails through life with dry eyes and clear sinuses?

CNN: Where do allergies come from?

As U.S. money market funds become more risk averse in the face of renewed sovereign debt woes in Europe, dollar liquidity has begun to dry up in the Old Continent.

FORBES: Official Euro Document: Crisis Now Systemic As Bank Liquidity Problem Fuels Vicious Feedback Loop