That approach led to thousands of dry wells in the 1980's.
Only an emptiness, as if she looked into a dry well.
Yet, "We came up with a dry well - $35 million later."
These dry wells are usually buried completely, so that they do not take up any land area.
When a dry well is above the water table, most of its internal volume will contain air.
At the upper end, quite near the pass, was a dry well and a knot of homes.
But his words had all the effect of the proverbial cry down a dry well.
His throat was a dry well which had been faced with sandpaper.
During the campaign, W. tried to soothe public doubts about the deep dry well of his foreign policy knowledge.
Even before they investigated, the agents knew Topeka would be a dry well.