Sentence examples for arid by from inspiring English sources

What made Dreyer's childhood emotionally arid by most accounts was lack of familial affection, partly motivated by his real mother, Josefina Nilsson, a Swedish maidservant, having failed to leave the Dreyers any money for child support.

Other areas are arid by virtue of being a very long way from the nearest available sources of moisture.

It is extremely arid, bounded by two rain shadows (caused by the Andes to the east, and the Pacific trade winds to the west).

That problem is wonderfully illustrated by a passage from "Huckleberry Finn," which enlivens an otherwise arid report by the C.D.C.

A parallel process previously cleared Paraguay's eastern half: the lush, rain-soaked land separated from the arid Chaco by the Paraguay river.

The Han flows into the Danjiangkou reservoir in Hubei province from which water is due to be channelled to the arid capital by 2014.

The fields below had turned an arid brown by April and May, yet at this elevation the bloom was still in progress: I saw purple lupine, scarlet paintbrush, yellow rabbitbrush.

Most Western officials and foreign donors agree that land should be redistributed in Zimbabwe, where millions of blacks were forced to subsist on rocky, arid soil by British settlers who seized the country's best land during the colonial era.

Spain is characterized by the overlap of one fundamental climatic division (between humid and semiarid and arid zones) by another (the threefold division of the peninsula into maritime, continental, and mountain climates).

A US start-up has turned to nature to help bring water to arid areas by drawing moisture from the air.

The climatic condition at Bokspits is arid, characterized by low rainfall of about 181.0 ± 15.4 mm (1975 to 2012), with high temporal (CV = 53.3%) and spatial fluctuations.