dry bread

collocation in English

meaningsofdryandbread

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dry
adjective
uk
/draɪ/us
/draɪ/
used to describe something that has no water or other liquid in, on, or ...
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bread
noun[U]
uk
/bred/us
/bred/
a food made from flour, water, and usually yeast, mixed together ...
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(Definition ofdryandbreadfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdry bread

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It is probablydrybreadtoday and margarine tomorrow.
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She was existing ondrybreadand tea.
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People are going to the collieries, at this particular moment, takingdrybreadwith them.
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He had eaten nothing butdrybreadsince the day before.
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Very few of them had anything for breakfast except one or two pieces ofdrybreadand ersatz coffee without any milk or sugar.
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That "piece of cake" is going to turn to thedrybreadof frustration.
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She was existing ondrybread, stale bread, margarine, and weak tea.
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There they gave away a little milk anddrybread—only milk anddrybread.
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I have had experience in recent weeks at certain pits, where men are going to work provided only withdrybread.
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It is prepared by the broth of offals and cuttingdrybreadand adding pepper powder and onion.
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He started nibbling ondrybreadto give him the strength to stay awake through his morning receptions.
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The fruits are filled with pulp that dries, hardens, and falls to pieces which look like chunks of powdery,drybread.
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The family lived on wild seeds that the children would eat with soup, and ondrybreaduntil that was no longer available either.
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However,drybreadwas also more economical and eating fresh bread was considered a luxury.
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According to another hadith, one day as they were fasting and a beggar came by asking for food, so they gave him theirdrybread.
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It consists of broken "flatbrd" (wafer-thin, crisp bread), "tunnbrd" ordrybreadserved in a bowl of cold milk (often "filmjlk") and sweetened with sugar etc.
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It is reported that the fast which she kept was so strict that she took scarcely an ounce ofdrybreadevery eight or ten days.
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A kid-safe version of this demonstration can be performed with less hazardous and readily available 3% or 6% hydrogen peroxide anddrybreadyeast as a catalyst.
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