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• Twenty-five miles down the narrow arid highway, there is another town like Napoleon, a little smaller.2016 April 19, Rex Sorgatz, “The Internet Really Has Changed Everything. Here’s the Proof.”, in Wired. From the entry jerkwater
• New lakes had appeared as if by magic in the arid scrublands.2006 November 20, Judy Pasternak, “Oases in Navajo Desert Contained 'A Witch's Brew'”, in Los Angeles Times. From the entry scrubland
• They inhabit open country, from arid scrub to moister, high-altitude grasslands.2003, Mike Unwin, “Mammals”, in South African Wildlife: A Visitor’s Guide, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire: Bradt Travel Guides…. From the entry aardwolf
• A streamful of sterile slime is before you and an arid plain behind you.1986, The Literary Half-yearly - Volumes 27-29. From the entry streamful
• The gills are never corky or woody and only slightly fleshy, usually arid and toughish.1918, Calvin Henry Kauffman, The Agaricaceae of Michigan, Volume 1. From the entry toughish
• Furthermore the region around Yucca is extremely arid—the Nevada Desert is one of the driest places in the United States.2022, Harry E Gove, From Hiroshima to the Iceman, page 141. From the entry yucca
• Today, that arid landscape is broken up with large areas of healthy riparian habitat filled with cottonwood, willow, and mesquite trees.2022 October 27, Julia Morton, “Restoration Efforts in the Colorado River Delta are Working”, in Audubon. From the entry salt cedar
• Several cyanobacteria live as endolithic species inside rocks (within the crystal lattice) in very arid, hot or cold deserts, usually subaerophytic.2015, John D. Wehr, Robert G. Sheath, J. Patrick Kociolek, Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification. From the entry subaerophytic
• In the north, with decreasing altitude, the terrain becomes progressively more arid as the Sudanese lowlands converge with the Red-Sea coast.2012, David W. Phillipson, Foundations of an African Civilisation. Aksum & the northern Horn, 1000 BC–AD 1300, Woodbridge, Suffolk: James…. From the entry escarpment
• The mallines are wetlands in arid and semi-arid regions.2004, A. Mugetti, Patagonian shelf, page 942. From the entry mallin
• Lakes in arid zone are sensitive to climatic changes.2004 January, Jin Heling et al., “Vicissitude of Sogo Nur and environmental-climatic change during last 1500 years”, in Science China…. From the entry Sogo Nur
• The corridor, though an arid area, is constantly watered by the melting snow and ice from the Chiliens.[1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 195. From the entry Beishan
• The arid argot of the estate agent’s schedule becomes obsolete when the task is to sell a pub-restaurant at the edge of a Highland wilderness.2018 November 25, Kevin McKenna, “Remote island pub for sale ... just don’t expect a quiet life”, in The Guardian. From the entry quadratic equation
• The setting sun gave out no warmth on that chalkwhite desert, and the rising nightwind did nothing to cool the arid air.2015, Dan Clore, The Unspeakable and Others, →ISBN. From the entry chalkwhite
• Van Dyke's aesthetic soarings about the arid lands passed on whifty ruminations on coyotes, rattlesnakes, and greasewood, but they were horrors of misinformation.2007, Peter Wild, The Grumbling Gods: A Palm Springs Reader, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry whifty
• These are soils that occur in the most arid segment of the climatic range of Chernozemic soils and have brownish-colored A horizons.1998, The Canadian System of Soil Classification, Canadian Agricultural Services Coordinating Committee, page 63. From the entry chernozemic
• Although they are most abundant in the arid Southwest and on into Mexico, yuccas also grow in dry sandy spots throughout the East and Midwest.1987, Rita Buchanan, “Plant Fibers for Spinning and Stuffing”, in A Weaver's Garden, Loveland, Colo.: Interweave Press, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry yucca
• Practically all of them were peasants from the arid Szeyap (i.e., "four districts") area southwest of Canton, the capital city of the province of Kwangtung.1985, Grace Pung Guthrie, A School Divided: An Ethnography of Bilingual Education in a Chinese Community, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates…. From the entry Szeyap
• The well known Galeodes, is very common in arid countries, and is popularly known as a "Jerrymunglum." It is a harmless arthropod.1929, Walter Scott Patton, Alwen M Evans, Insects, Ticks, Mites and Venomous Animals of Medical and Veterinary Importance. From the entry jerrymunglum
• There the high treeless steppe of short grass surrounds arid depressions or salt-pans with the usual carpet of low, fleshy salt-bushes and heaths of tamarixes.1913, Marcel E. Hardy, An Introduction to Plant Geography (Oxford geographies), Clarendon Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177. From the entry tamarix
• For, firstly, the membership of these societies is limited; arid "toothly," as the colored preacher said, one blackball will keep out any one.1907, The Bay State monthly. From the entry toothly
• It seems that most seeds are foodful in the arid regions, most berries edible, and many shrubs good for firewood with the sap in them.1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little Rain. From the entry foodful
• Some researchers worry that rainforests will soon reach a tipping point — a point of no return in which the once-lush forests transition to arid regions.2021 June 22, Sam Romano, “Rainforests are under siege. Here’s what you should know.”, in CNN. From the entry tipping point
• Desertification, as defined by the CCD, means "land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities."1998, “Fact Sheet: Desertification”, in United States Department of State, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2019. From the entry desertification
• More than that, perhaps the worst thing, was a sort of mephitic fog, moistureless and invisible, that came and went like an exhalation of the arid earth itself.1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 3. From the entry mephitic
• He paused by the edge of the lifeless-looking cornpatch, drew a drink from one of his skins to start the saliva, and spat into the arid soil.1978 October, Stephen King, “The Gunslinger”, in Edward L[ewis] Ferman, editor, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 55…. From the entry cornpatch
• Mai-kai-t'i Hsien in the western sector of the Takla Makan Desert urgently needs to solve its long-standing irrigation problem and make its arid soil more productive.1949, SINKIANG IRRIGATION AND FACTORY PROBLEMS DISCUSSED; FARM LOANS TO BE DISTRIBUTED, page 1. From the entry Mai-kai-t'i
• Others, such as arachnids, evolved more-or-less waterproof cuticles and eggs, so that they were able to leave water far behind and occupy even the most inhospitable, arid environments on Earth.2015, Dave Goulson, A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm, Picador, →ISBN, pages 24-25. From the entry waterproof
• We have chosen three very remote oases (Milan, Ruoqiang, Waxxari) on the southern fringe of the Taklamakan desert in the extremely arid region of northwest China (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region).2012, Y. Qi, F. Meixner, Z. Wu, S. Beirle, T. Wagner, M. Andreae, B. Mamtimin, “Tropospheric NO2 column densities over oases of the…. From the entry Waxxari
• Pedocals are highly alkaline (high pH readings) soils with little or no humus and are formed in arid regions where subsurface evaporation of water crystallizes as calcium or lime deposits.2003, Robert E. Krebs, The Basics of Earth Science, page 162. From the entry pedocal

Meaning of arid

1. adjective Very dry.
2. adjective Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
3. adjective Devoid of value.

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How do you use arid in a sentence?

Arid is used as an adjective. For example: “The cake was arid.”

What is a short sentence with arid?

“The cake was arid.”

What does arid mean?

Arid means very dry.