dry spell

noun

: a period of dry weather
The flowers died during a dry spell.

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The familiarity and fit should allow Plum to hit the ground running as the Sparks’ leader to end a four-year playoff dry spell. Ben Pickman, New York Times, 15 May 2025 This marks the band’s first ever No.1 charting album in the U.S., and with this feat Ghost has officially broken metal’s dry spell on the Billboard Top 200 Charts. Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025 The news comes after a roughly four year long dry spell for Lorde. Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025 But that dry spell looks set to end — and not with a whimper. Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dry spell

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“Dry spell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dry%20spell. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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