dry land in English

noun
1
land as opposed to the sea or another body of water.
the tide came in and cut off his route to dry land

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1. He was treading on dry land.

2. Most crops should be farmed on dry land.

3. Dry land has been turned into paddy fields.

4. It was not always dry land where we dwell.

5. About one fourth of the earth is dry land.

6. We were glad to be on dry land again.

7. We sailed for three days before we saw dry land.

8. I'm no sailor and I couldn't wait to reach dry land.

9. In time, birds were sent out to search for dry land.

10. Then Jehovah makes the fish vomit Joʹnah out onto dry land.

11. She was looking forward to standing on dry land once more.

12. Three years ago they came here and ranched the mountainous dry land.

13. He was determined to keep both feet firmly planted on dry land.

14. When he woke he was on dry land, lying on a beach.

15. On dry land the nearest equivalents of the filter-feeders are the grazers.

16. When they arrived on the dry land the elder went on his way .

17. We finally docked in Portland, Maine, happy to be on dry land again.

18. It was good to be on dry land again after months at sea.

19. After three weeks at sea we were glad to be back on dry land again.

20. Some repairs to the boat will have to wait until we're back on dry land.

21. + 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life* in its nostrils died.

22. Many millions of years ago, our ancestors climbed out of the primeval ooze onto dry land.

23. It was a great relief to be back on dry land after such a rough crossing.

24. Stretches and deep body work rarely achieved on dry land can be performed in the water.

25. Dry land rice growing is the primary production activities of Landian Yaos high land shifting farming.

26. Read in studio Back on dry land now for the rest of the weeks sporting highlights.

27. Under water as well as on dry land E. tenellus is propagated vegetatively from the root runners.

28. Everyone looks for dry land, somewhere to rest after the relentlessness of always being on the move.

29. In the northeastern region of the state, particularly around Pendleton, both irrigated and dry land wheat is grown.

30. The horses heaved out of the water and stood, blowing and dripping, on a ridge of dry land.

31. Lakes or the ocean) but can also occur on dry land, where it is known as dry Calving 2

32. He walked slowly, however, to make the journey as long as possible, and put her down on dry land.

33. The swelling on the horizon now seemed like dry land in the middle of an undulating ocean of light.

34. Now, on the third ‘creative day,’ he proceeded to raise the dry land out of ‘the waters beneath the expanse.’

35. The account adds: “God began calling the dry land Earth, but the bringing together of the waters he called Seas.

36. 8 synonyms for Ashore: on land, on the beach, on the shore, aground, to the shore, on dry land, shorewards, landwards

37. After three days and three nights, the fish brought Jonah right to the shore and “vomited out Jonah onto the dry land.”

38. The ashes of its funeral pyre shall be transmuted into swans, which will swim away upon dry land as though in water.

39. Abaft means “in the back.” Though rarely heard on dry land, this old seafaring word refers to the rear end of a ship

40. This no doubt took considerable time, for the account says: “At length the sons of Israel went through the midst of the sea on dry land.”

41. The earliest amphibians evolved in the Devonian period from sarcopterygian fish with lungs and bony-limbed fins, features that were helpful in adapting to dry land.

42. I wonder what his exuberant imagination would have made of Walpole islet -- that most hopelessly forsaken crumb of dry land on the face of the waters.

43. + because you travel over sea and dry land to make one proselyte,* and when he becomes one, you make him a subject for Ge·henʹna* twice as much so as yourselves.

44. Unlike the webbed feet of ducks, Coots have broad, lobed scales on their lower legs and toes that fold back with each step in order to facilitate walking on dry land.

45. Genesis 1:9 View whole chapter See verse in context And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land Appear: and it was so

46. Ketchum (1972) defined the area as: The band of dry land and adjacent ocean space (water and submerged land) in which terrestrial processes and land uses directly affect oceanic processes and uses, and vice versa.

47. The spread of Cattails in a body of water is an important part of the process of open water being converted to marsh then dry land. They are native to both North America and Europe

48. In the Book of Genesis, God commands Noah to built the massive vessel and bring “every sort [of animal]...male and female ... everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life.”

49. This allowed amniotes to lay eggs on dry land, while amphibians generally need to lay their eggs in water (a few amphibians, such as the common Suriname toad, have evolved other ways of getting around this limitation).

50. Life underneath the waves corresponds in many ways to that on dry land. The Sea Dog is a dog with webbed feet and fish scales instead of fur. They are amphibious and roam the shorelines at night.