How to Use arid in a Sentence

arid

adjective
  • Botanists once thought arid deserts would stymie its advance.
    — Ian Rose, JSTOR Daily, 26 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • People in arid regions can do the same in their own backyards.
    — Jude Coleman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Biochar is a form of charcoal that can help arid soils retain water.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Should the region be allowed to become arid plain once again?
    — Lori Hinnant, Sam McNeil, Illia Novikov, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • The debate echoes concerns heard in many other arid parts of the world.
    — Jim Carlton, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Children danced in the puddles, a rare sight in this arid region.
    — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • That’s bad news at a time when woodlands are more arid than ever before.
    — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The grain is grown all over the country from the semi-arid north to the rain forests of the south.
    — Ruth Olurounbi, Bloomberg.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Wet microbursts bring heavy rain, while dry ones are common in arid regions.
    — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • This salt is not for use in arid and semiarid regions, where soils are high in sodium.
    — Beth Hanson, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2015
  • 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
  • Swerve past arid mesa tops and cow pastures all the way to your destination.
    — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2025
  • In the arid valley of predictability, the chaos of taboo can feel so lush.
    — Grace Hussar, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Now, all that kindling is dry following the long, arid months of summer.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • These lizards can be found in arid and semiarid habitats in open areas with sparse plant cover.
    — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • 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
  • Researchers think the book survived due to Egypt’s arid climate.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The alternatives to beef here - bready crab cakes, arid pork ribs - are almost as sad.
    — Tom Sietsema, chicagotribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • The weather for the greater part of the trip was hot and arid, except for a hailstorm and lightning.
    — Carol Cormaci, La Cañada Valley Sun, 10 July 2017
  • If arid landscapes are your thing, around 80% of Turkmenistan is desert.
    — Joe Yogerst, CNN Money, 31 July 2025
  • And here at home, the importance of water to our arid state cannot be overstated.
    — Ved Nanda, The Denver Post, 26 July 2019
  • Later, a pair of slugs that help the seed cross an arid landscape, like camels in the desert, glisten vividly.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Water levels in reservoirs dipped, and the arid weather set the stage for wildfires.
    — Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The United States flies drones out of a base in the country’s arid heartland.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Thousands of different types of plants from the world’s arid regions are spread across the landscape.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2024

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