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    Use "arid" in a sentence

    arid example sentences

    arid


    1. It was arid and gritty, mixed in with bits of flint and twigs; there was even a pistachio shell


    2. The old river course was nothing more than a deep and arid notch in the landside giving no shade at all but on we crunched, stumbling over tricky stones and gradually it grew less steep but with more boulders


    3. By mid morn, the meadow was clear arid Uncle Todd had made his final trip to Dort loaded with poles, bunting and remnants of the staging


    4. All other blossoms either sagged or dropped to the arid ground


    5. What was arid became green, green and diverse


    6. In this arid land? Yes


    7. The arid plains of a terrain void of Mako


    8. Hydroelectric dams have provided fresh water to arid sections of our country and have given us inexpensive electricity


    9. In front on the other side, stood out highlands covered with houses and trees with a background of bald, arid and barren elevations


    10. The arid Karas region of

    11. to survive in an arid and


    12. Rome, although far from arid, did not have the easy fertility of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley or the Nile Valley, yet created an empire that not only exceeded these, but engulfed all of Egypt and parts of Mesopotamia


    13. He had almost forgotten how green it had been in that riverine delta land as compared to the arid existence of his long adulthood


    14. To their right a much lower hill fell rapidly away, only an occasional large desert scrub bush broke the sameness of its arid expanse


    15. “My, what a beautiful flower you have brought to such an arid place!” remarked the old voice, very close now


    16. had almost forgotten how green it had been in that riverine delta land as compared to the arid


    17. “My, what a beautiful flower you have brought to such an arid place!” remarked the old voice,


    18. He next examined the chipped stones and many amongst these were found to be black arid some to have great crocks


    19. He looked forward to an arid fall, a cold winter, and a bleak spring


    20. The daytime express to Paris was a ten hour delight of charming villages, grand rivers, rolling fields, distant mountains, and forests with not an arid, desiccated square metre to be seen

    21. He stood alone in the endless winters of the steppes, the virgin forest of the north, the arid desert of the east, the rough plains of the west, the dangers of the south


    22. The Gerontikon tel s the story of Abba Moses the Ethiopian, the amazing person of God living in an arid, isolated place, who heard a


    23. Among the less arid stretches of desert, in the jungles, and among the mountains, lived scattered clans and tribes of primitive savages


    24. These were the remains of the last of the native species to give up the ghost, unable to cope with the arid conditions


    25. Not only did she refuse to open doors when the arid wind passed through, but she had the windows nailed shut with boards in the shape of a cross, obeying the paternal order of being buried alive


    26. In the small isolated room where the arid air never penetrated, nor the dust, nor the heat, both had the atavistic vision of an old man, his back to the window, wearing a hat with a brim like the wings of a crow who spoke about the world many years before they had been born


    27. Nancy took that time to examine the local terrain: it was arid, like much of Afghanistan, with the city of Herat and its surrounding villages to the north of the airport forming a green oasis in the middle of the brown landscape


    28. The ground was arid, with hardly any vegetation visible anywhere, and was quite flat, except for a mountain mass to the West and another to the South


    29. After about one hour and a half of flight, with Nancy estimating the distance flown to be about 300 kilometers, what looked like a large industrial complex in the middle of the arid Iranian landscape appeared ahead in the distance


    30. showed a bearded man walking alone in a desolated, arid area, with the camera zooming in on his serene face as the title appeared in the background

    31. religion arid spiritual wife (Eve)


    32. But suddenly, you hear a rattling noise sifting through the arid air


    33. All, of course, thanks to the wealth coming from under the vast, empty, and very arid, desert –


    34. In June, the hot, arid desert here, becomes a ‘bake-oven’


    35. the mountains into more arid conditions; the air was growing drier and


    36. The country was arid, and anyone that had ever traveled before knew not to hurry, but once in a while we’d see someone making haste


    37. But the more arid and rugged interior was sparsely populated, with towns like Jericho, near the small fertile delta where the Jordan River emptied into the Dead Sea, being uncommon amongst


    38. After Solomon’s death, the ten Hebrew tribes of the more prosperous North refused allegiance to his son Rehoboam, and the nation was split into Israel in the North with its capital at Samaria and the two tribes of Judah in the arid South, keeping their capital in Jerusalem


    39. ' That's a dry, arid landscape where very little grows


    40. They were alone in the car, and so Tammas had his choice of views, all of which were hot, arid desert landscapes, large circular patches describing some form of crop or gardening, and domed habitats stretching as far as the eye could see

    41. Central European Standard Time,” as I said this I touched the graphic and the browns started turning green, “It will rain here for thirty days in the arid areas


    42. Not that it would have grown, as the soil is dry and arid since the irrigation system failed after the pumps were looted, and the new ‘war veteran’ owners know nothing about farming anyway


    43. The assassin expelled a plume of smoke into the arid desert heat, and climbed up into the cabin of his truck


    44. Surely they didn't intend to farm this arid plateau, he asserted to himself


    45. As they rode through the arid land and looked out over the rolling dunes that surrounded them, Severus couldn't believe that what he saw had ever been lush with vegetation, despite the fact that he had witnessed it for himself just decades previous


    46. Surely they didn’t intend to farm this arid plateau, he asserted to himself


    47. Identifying the character of OM, tat arid sat, Krishn says that these


    48. climate changed from hot and humid to cool and arid


    49. arid desert within the continental interior


    50. of the arid deserts of the Triassic were replaced by lush














































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    Synonyms for "arid"

    arid desiccate desiccated waterless dry flat prosaic boring tedious vapid empty parched droughty desert dried dusty barren sterile waste infertile

    "arid" definitions

    lacking sufficient water or rainfall


    lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless