How to Use desiccant in a Sentence

desiccant

noun
  • The soap acts as a desiccant to dry out the moss.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The soap acts as a desiccant to dry out the moss.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The liquid salt desiccant then runs through a heat pump system to be recharged.
    — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Inside the Kara, there is a fan pulling in air, which gets passed through the desiccant.
    — Andrew Watman, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Warm air is then used to dry the desiccant so it can be reused, and the water is collected in a tank.
    — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The more humid the air, the more the desiccant can take moisture out, which is the bases of the cooling.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2024
  • In the absorber units the desiccant is sprinkled through a mesh to increase the surface area as air is drawn over it by a fan.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The smartest option is to keep synthetic desiccants (drying agents) on-hand.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Borax is a desiccant and will draw all the moisture out and preserve the feet eventually.
    — Joseph Albanese, Outdoor Life, 26 May 2020
  • Anti-desiccants eventually wear off with rain and snow.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Some gardeners add a desiccant with the seed packets to reduce the moisture levels.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Some gardeners add a desiccant with the seed packets to reduce moisture levels.
    — Brian Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026
  • But savvy DIYers have long known that the omnipresent desiccants are good for a lot more than keeping jerky dry.
    — Seth Porges, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2010
  • Submerge your phone in a desiccant—a substance that will induce dryness by absorbing water.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Submerge your phone in a desiccant—a substance that will induce dryness by absorbing water.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the twist-locking lid, sealing strip, and included desiccant pack keep the kibble inside fresh.
    — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Killgrove said chestnut oaks contain tannin, a natural desiccant, a type of drying agent.
    — Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2016
  • Some desiccants are solid, others are liquid but the newest — hydrogels or aerogels — are spongy.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Moisture absorbed from the air returns as diluted desiccant to storage.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This type of water harvesting relies on desiccant, the same stuff that’s in those little packs put into shoe boxes and new bags to suck up moisture and prevent water damage.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Dry goods and some other foods can be safely stored for a long time in a variety of containers, when packaged with the appropriate desiccant or oxygen absorbers.
    — Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Another method of drying flowers involves silica gel, a desiccant that rapidly removes the moisture from the flower.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Previously the company believed that a drying agent called a desiccant stopped the chemical from degrading.
    — Tom Krisher, The Seattle Times, 21 July 2017
  • This minimizes humidity getting into the medicine bottle and also removes the risk of swallowing the desiccant by mistake.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2022
  • In storage, the concentrated desiccant and pure water are held in tanks, effectively banking cooling potential for later.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
  • One file was a cylinder designed to fit into the centers of Bambu Lab filament rolls, while the other was intended to fit in the back area behind the rolls to hold even more desiccant.
    — PC Magazine, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The dehumidifier pulls in the moist air, passing it over a wheel made of a water-absorbing desiccant material, similar to silica gel packs.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 July 2024
  • This Vaydeer metal travel pill organizer has a sleek design that protects against water and humidity with a silicone seal and desiccant.
    — Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The previous recalls focused on inflators without desiccants.
    — Ryan Beene, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2017
  • The recall disclosed Tuesday covers inflators using calcium sulfate as a desiccant.
    — Ryan Beene, Bloomberg.com, 11 July 2017

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