How to Use arid in a Sentence

arid

adjective
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  • Trees die en masse, setting the parched and arid state up to burn.
    — Tessa Love, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2019
  • These chimps live in the hottest, most arid place that chimps are known to exist.
    — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
  • Most, but not all, are reduced to skeletons in the arid desert.
    — Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • The United States flies drones out of a base in the country’s arid heartland.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The Sahel, the arid strip south of the Sahara, has seen a succession of coups.
    — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Reap some fearless insight from the arid patch of facts.
    — Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Bundled in quilts, the boys squinted their eyes against the cold breeze, taking in the arid shrub land.
    — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 8 July 2024
  • Children danced in the puddles, a rare sight in this arid region.
    — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • All sorts of pines, shrubs and so much more in a region usually thought of as arid.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • People in arid regions can do the same in their own backyards.
    — Jude Coleman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Should the region be allowed to become arid plain once again?
    — Lori Hinnant, Sam McNeil, Illia Novikov, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • Researchers think the book survived due to Egypt’s arid climate.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The climate in the reserve is arid and cold and the growing season is limited to about two months a year.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • Out here, at the edge of the vast Great Basin, there are more people camping out in the arid desert than sleeping in hotel rooms.
    — oregonlive, 17 May 2023
  • Biochar is a form of charcoal that can help arid soils retain water.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The winds can kick up dust and other debris in arid regions, which results in sand and dust storms.
    — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Same goes for an arid crock of cavatappi mac and cheese.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 12 July 2018
  • That’s bad news at a time when woodlands are more arid than ever before.
    — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Spain’s arid coast looms in one direction; the tip of Africa in another, less than 10 miles away.
    — Josh Lederman, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Water levels in reservoirs dipped, and the arid weather set the stage for wildfires.
    — Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
  • One engulfed my journey’s starting line in the arid Rift Valley of Ethiopia.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 10 Jan. 2020
  • And here at home, the importance of water to our arid state cannot be overstated.
    — Ved Nanda, The Denver Post, 26 July 2019
  • Back-to-back wet winters and an arid summer have primed grasses and fine fuels for fire.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
  • In the Great Karoo, a vast semi-arid expanse in South Africa, lions and cheetahs once roamed.
    — CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The narrow angles of the valleys bear a stronger resemblance to those found in Earth's arid landscapes, such as in the deserts of Arizona.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com, 13 July 2018
  • Deserts are hot and arid in the day, but there’s something calming and peaceful about them, and Hamed has captured this in the new collection.
    — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 7 May 2021
  • The warm, sunny weather is the product of an arid Western climate that is also prone to drought.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The Sahel region, a semi-arid belt that acts as a buffer zone just south of the desert, is most affected.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 17 Mar. 2021
  • These are our sweet self-indulgences here on arid, airless Ares.
    — Bruce Sterling, Quartz, 22 July 2019
  • In the arid canyons of Sedona, Arizona, one retreat emphasizes a return to nature and oneself.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024

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