How to Use semiarid in a Sentence

semiarid

adjective
  • This salt is not for use in arid and semiarid regions, where soils are high in sodium.
    — Beth Hanson, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2015
  • They're often found on loose sand or loamy soils and habitat in arid and semiarid ecosystems.
    — Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 27 Aug. 2024
  • Contrary to these statements, Syria’s deserts are not very sandy but rather more dusty and semiarid.
    — Siobhán O'Grady and, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
  • One reason is the technical challenge of growing trees in a semiarid city built for cars.
    — Sam Bloch august 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • This is a land of caprock, cowpokes and unending fields of cotton, a crop that loves the merciless sun of its semiarid climate.
    — Mary Ann Anderson, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2019
  • This is Texas east of the Pecos, a land of cowpokes and unending fields of cotton, a crop that loves the merciless sun of its semiarid climate.
    — Mary Ann Anderson, Twin Cities, 20 July 2019
  • Made up largely of semiarid desert and steppes, the country also encompasses mountains, fertile valleys, lakes, and major rivers.
    — Daphne Beal, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Nov. 2017
  • The vast expanse of desert and semiarid land is home to militants with ties to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
    — Danielle Paquette, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2019
  • Most of Niger’s population is concentrated in the south, in a semiarid band known as the Sahel, which runs across Africa.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Along with much of the semiarid western United States, California relies on snowpack for its water supplies.
    — National Geographic, 10 Jan. 2018
  • In the 1930s, the federal government began to build a network of dams, pipelines, and canals that moved water from the state’s wetter north to farms in its semiarid south.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 16 Apr. 2020
  • In a semiarid environment where water is not abundant, sustainability depends on using every drop wisely.
    — Mike Coffman, Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Now, analyses of cave formations from the region bolster the notion that changes in the strength of that semiarid region’s summer monsoon may have played a major role in this cultural upheaval, and others like it.
    — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Since 2020, there have been coups throughout the Sahel, the strategically important belt of hot, semiarid land stretching across Africa just below the Sahara desert.
    — Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, climate change has made farming in the semiarid country even more unpredictable, and some 3 million people are expected to face hunger in the next six months, according to the nonprofit Save the Children.
    — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In the semiarid hills of the Nebraska Panhandle and eastern Wyoming, where summer rains are rare, farmers depend on irrigation water diverted from rivers through a network of canals and tunnels.
    — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 29 July 2019
  • During the Early Cretaceous, Nagatitan inhabited an arid-to-semiarid landscape defined by a meandering river system teeming with fish, crocodiles, and freshwater sharks.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
  • In the Sahel region, a semiarid belt of land stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, temperatures are expected to rise 1 1/2 times faster than the global average, according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
    — Saskia Houttuin, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2025

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