How to Use arid in a Sentence

arid

adjective

• In general, flaky, sweaty, or diseased skin is thought to shed more DNA than healthy, arid skin.
  — Katie Worth, WIRED, 19 Apr. 2018
• Thursday was the second day of a storm that, in the usually arid south, flooded riverbeds with sudden, lethal effect.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• Seager wanted to know more about how the humid/arid divide might have influenced the stark population falloff.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2018
• Those plants that are native to arid West Texas don’t grow here natively for one or more reasons, and waterlogged soils are a big one.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 12 Apr. 2018
• Dubai even shares the similarly arid climate of Las Vegas which explains why much of its entertainment is indoors.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• By and large the people of Gaza — over two-thirds of them descended from refugees from what is now Israel — cannot leave their tiny strip of arid land along the Mediterranean coast.
  — Josef Federman and Dan Perry, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• Interstate 35 is infamous for being the divider between Gulf Coast moisture from the east and more arid, desert air masses from the west.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2018
• The Dead Sea, the world's lowest point at about 1,400 feet below sea level, is surrounded by desert and generally arid cliffs.
  — Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Made with snowmelt, sage, and local Colorado honey, this beer tastes the way the arid Rocky Mountain breeze smells.
  — Ac Shilton, Outside Online, 6 June 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
• In the arid canyons of Sedona, Arizona, one retreat emphasizes a return to nature and oneself.
  — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024