arid
Example Sentences
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Skin bones may have helped reduce water loss and likely offered protection in open, arid landscapes.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
So with farmers facing arid brown fields that should be flooded, lush paddies, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim this week announced cloud-seeding operations to trigger rain.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
"Prog is simply great music released from the arid strictures of cool and from the sneers of gatekeepers".
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Camus’s vision may have been a bleak and arid one, but it retains its awful potency.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
The nutrients, while suitable for the comfortable environment of a university microbiology laboratory, were not designed for the arid polar wasteland.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing arid
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