How to Use dry suit in a Sentence
dry suit
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The $1,000 dry suit is just one piece of equipment needed for the winter months.
— Sarah Knapp, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2022 -
On Monday, Williams stood on the edge of the island in a dry suit holding three of the palm-sized mussels.
— OregonLive.com, 2 Nov. 2017 -
The dry suit worked well, keeping me warm and dry, for the most part - but my face was in the water; my hands got cold, too.
— Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 9 May 2018 -
Upon landing, a commuter could walk to work in the dry suit or change at, say, a gym.
— Danyoung Kim, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021 -
Friedrich layered up with wet and dry suits plus skin pants, but his face was exposed and his lips went numb in five minutes.
— Laura Mallonee, Wired, 10 Feb. 2020 -
And don’t worry: While the water stays a cool 34-degrees Fahrenheit, you’ll be snuggly wrapped up in a dry suit.
— Erika Owen, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2019 -
The high-tech dry suits, all fail-safe zippers and rubber cuffs, can take two people to wrangle into place.
— Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018 -
Wearing a dry suit and tethered to the rest of the team by a rope, Harper approached the dog, lifted it out of the water and held on as dog and brave rescuer were pulled back to safety.
— Matthew Dolan, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2023 -
Design of the first dry suit is credited to Bill Barada of Los Angeles, also in the early 1950s.
— Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 10 Sep. 2019 -
On that recent morning, Mayo watched Packard disappear into the dark depths in his black dry suit and tracked the bubbles from his scuba gear as Packard made his way to the bottom.
— BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2021 -
Keep warm with a wet suit, dry suit, immersion suit, survival suit or exposure coveralls.
— oregonlive, 29 May 2021 -
The top layer, though, is specific to the river — a dry suit made of nylon that keeps everything underneath perfectly dry.
— Sarah Knapp, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2022 -
Greenland requires that divers be certified and have experience diving in dry suit within the past year.
— Hannah Lang, National Geographic, 6 July 2017 -
As helmets are standard on rocky stretches and dry suits assist on colder waters, drowning is still a remote possibility, which is why commercial trips and river guides still have such long waivers.
— Peter Reese, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2017 -
Finally, outfitted in protective equipment, including a dry suit, into the pipe the firefighter went.
— Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2021 -
Prolonged exposure to water below 75 degrees is a hypothermia risk, and the dry suits come out in September, or whenever hazardous materials might taint the water.
— Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
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