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adjective

arid

very dry; having little or no rain

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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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