ARID in a Sentence

Learn ARID from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

12 example sentences for ARID, such as:

1. The desert is so arid that nothing can grow there.
2. This was obviously impossible in these arid wilds.
3. Water from the Great Lakes is pumped to arid regions.
4. The night promised to be as arid as the day had been.
5. He began to season the arid climate in the Middle East.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARID
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arid
 a.  dry; lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or plants
Classic Sentence:
1  IN the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert, which for many a long year served as a barrier against the advance of civilisation.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
2  This was obviously impossible in these arid wilds.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
3  Evening had fallen when he woke and the sand and arid grasses of his bed glowed no longer.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  I slipped through one of these cracks, went up a swept and ungarnished staircase, as arid as a desert, and opened the first door I came to.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
5  Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  Only some thirty arid summers had he seen; those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
7  The night promised to be as arid as the day had been.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF
Example Sentence:
1  Water from the Great Lakes is pumped to arid regions.
2  He began to season the arid climate in the Middle East.
3  The desert is so arid that nothing can grow there.
4  The cactus has adapted to survive in an arid environment.
5  Los Cabos is on the tip of the state of Baja California Sur - an arid and cactus-filled land, yet fertile due to its peninsular body surrounded by the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean.