How to Use arid in a Sentence

arid

adjective

• These chimps live in the hottest, most arid place that chimps are known to exist.
  — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
• 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
• Children danced in the puddles, a rare sight in this arid region.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
• 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
• That’s bad news at a time when woodlands are more arid than ever before.
  — Nora Mishanec, SFChronicle.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• In the Great Karoo, a vast semi-arid expanse in South Africa, lions and cheetahs once roamed.
  — CNN, 27 Jan. 2022
• Deserts are hot and arid in the day, but there’s something calming and peaceful about them, and Hamed has captured this in the new collection.
  — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• The warm, sunny weather is the product of an arid Western climate that is also prone to drought.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• The Sahel region, a semi-arid belt that acts as a buffer zone just south of the desert, is most affected.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 17 Mar. 2021
• The book is set in the near future, and its version of California is so arid, hot and flammable that water is too scarce to go around.
  — New York Times, 30 July 2021
• This part of the Mississippi River Valley is not a dry, arid place.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023
• Rows of giant fans spread across a flat, arid field will pull carbon dioxide from the air and then pump it deep underground.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2021
• While their neighbors slowly migrate to the city, the boy’s parents dig up the arid land in search of family heirlooms.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
• Today, the river is a vital source of fresh water in a very arid part of the world, serving over 23 million people.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• Such a machine also could prove useful in arid regions on Earth.
  — Marcia Dunn, USA TODAY, 23 June 2021
• Deaths have increased as migrants are pushed to more remote crossings that are more arid and inhospitable by the day.
  — Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 30 June 2022
• The storm's moisture will help fuel heavy snow across the West, and heavy rain in the normally arid Desert Southwest over the next few days, forecasters said.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
• The idea is to identify the types of trees that thrive in San Diego’s arid climate, as well as target locations for planting.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
• Some of the birds, which are listed as near threatened, winter in the arid grasslands of Northern Mexico.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• If your skin feels extra arid, stash a travel size hydrating facial spray in your bag to spritz on throughout the day.
  — Maddy Zollo Rusbosin, Women's Health, 27 Feb. 2023
• On the eerie, arid mountainside, only the Israelis remain.
  — Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The violence began in neighboring Mali in 2012 but has since spread across the arid expanse of the Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert.
  — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024
• Starting around 2019, the wind that gusts through the Sulphur Springs Valley would pick up loose grit from the thousands of acres of arid land that were being cleared to grow alfalfa.
  — Kyle Paoletta, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024