1. Consistent with its strong desiccating power, P4O10 is used in organic synthesis for dehydration.

2. A desiccating matrix composition that includes hydrogen-bonding polymer, plasticizer, organic-modified clay, adsorbent and optionally metal stearate.

3. Installation and repair of refrigerating, drying, ventilating, dehydrating, desiccating, air-conditioning and vacuum cooling machines, and of refrigerating chambers

4. I put my food waste into this dehydrating, desiccating macerator -- turns food into an inner material, which I can store and then compost later.

5. By the New Kingdom, the ancient Egyptians had perfected the art of mummification; the best technique took 70 days and involved removing the internal organs, removing the brain through the nose, and desiccating the body in a mixture of salts called natron.

6. Listen, all of you, to what will later be said of the Forsaken by one of their descendants, who fled the desert, its mirages, its impudent winds, its desiccating winds, its deceitful wells, its shifting dunes, its devils everywhere Aprowl; who preferred distant lands like Mortagne, cold and icy, where white, sometimes very white people live