1.   Dry air can help in some types of airway disease.

2.   She lived for the day when she could crunch numbers in the dry air of West Texas.

3.   The dry air and blazing sun made the soil crack and sizzle.

4.   The same two civilisations also developed mummification, having discovered how long bodies could be preserved in their dry air.

5.   They therefore risk dehydration during the day from the dry air.

6.   My head bobbed out into the cold dry air.

7.   In completely dry air this reaction proceeds very slowly, but with the addition of water as a catalyst the rate of oxidation increases dramatically.

8.   An inventor in Taiwan has patented an underwater drinking gadget for scuba divers whose throats become parched from breathing the dry air in their tanks.

9.   An unexpected surge of dry air spared New York and New Jersey the worst.