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Six example sentences with arid, each labelled with its topic.
The bus crosses two hundred arid kilometers with a single stop, so everyone fills a bottle before leaving town.
Travel
Grazing pushed the arid margin twenty kilometers north, and the wells that once served four villages now serve one.
Environment
Builders in arid regions learned to make thick walls and tiny windows long before anyone drew a cooling load.
Architecture
The rover landed in an arid basin where the dust has not felt rain in perhaps a billion years.
Science
She shoots the arid plateau at dawn, when long shadows give the cracked ground some texture.
Photography
Farming the arid north depends on subsidized water, and every drought reopens the argument about its price.
Economics
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- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
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- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT WordsRecognized
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