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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This was apparently the case with the man who was bitten in late February by a puff adder, a venomous snake native to semiarid regions (i.e., not Ireland).
  — Gillian Brockell, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Along with much of the semiarid western United States, California relies on snowpack for its water supplies.
  — National Geographic, 10 Jan. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024