The phrase "arid expanse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a dry, barren area of land, often in a poetic or descriptive context.
Example: "The travelers trudged across the arid expanse, their throats parched and their spirits waning under the relentless sun."
Alternatives: "dry stretch" or "barren landscape".
How could so many dinosaurs and other animals survive in an arid expanse of sand?
Last year, the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary welcomed 33 new lions to its arid expanse in northern South Africa.
More than the setting has changed, from a tropical island to the arid expanse of the Outback.
A vast, arid expanse of salt marshes and sand hills interlaced with Triodia (Spinifex) grass, it roughly coincides with the sedimentary Canning basin.
The findings make for a clearer picture of our cosmic neighbour, once viewed as an arid expanse, but now considered a frost-coated rock that holds water throughout.
Other scientists said the discovery appeared to be spectacular evidence that nothing, not even the arid expanse of the Sahara, is changeless.
Two hours on in hot sun, there was an African feel to the arid expanses of wind-scorched trees.
But, when the wind switches direction, surging from the east over the arid expanses of the Great Basin, conditions change rapidly.
Mr. Zander designed culverts to channel the water above the dam into streams that irrigated about eight acres of the arroyo, turning arid expanses into marshland.
All previous dinosaur remains had been discovered by accident in well-populated regions with temperate, moist climates, but Cope and Marsh astutely focused their attention on the wide arid expanses of bare exposed rock in western North America.
The landscape is characterised by arid expanses of loamy sand, bare red rock and eroded sediment, while the local flora – cat claws, bursage and mesquite – pokes out of the dusty ground like bristles on a hog.
