The phrase "arid reaches" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe dry, barren areas, often in a geographical or metaphorical context.
Example: "The explorers ventured into the arid reaches of the desert, where few dared to tread."
Alternatives: "dry expanses" or "barren stretches".
Other communal farms and communities in the arid reaches of southern Israel are rapidly turning to renewable energy: solar energy is a harvest that does not require irrigation.
Until Friday's attacks, the landlocked West African nation, an ally of Western governments against jihadist groups in the arid reaches of the southern Sahara, had largely been spared the kinds of attacks that have plagued its neighbors.
Born to an impoverished rural family in the arid northern reaches of South Africa, Ngoasheng (pronounced in-gwa-sheng) has been an anti-apartheid activist, an underground guerrilla, a political prisoner, a Marxist academic and until June 2000, President Thabo Mbeki's influential economics adviser.
Continuing along the narrowing peninsula, the landscape took on an almost Middle Eastern quality of being desolate and arid, before reaching the island's vast salt basin plains, and eventually the sea again.
While coastal Alentejo can be lush, dramatic and extraordinarily beautiful, the arid and rocky reaches of Alto Alentejo, an inland expanse of small villages, vineyards and olive groves east of Lisbon all the way to the Spanish border, is famous for being hot, sleepy and a bit old-fashioned.
Thus, if well-adapted non-natives can reach arid sites, they may become successful invaders.
Eucalyptus trees, which can grow lengthy taproots to reach deep ground water in arid areas, may stretch down 40 meters.
Cão's voyage curved down the west coast of Africa, past rainforests and arid deserts, until he reached a plume of muddy freshwater that stretched some five miles into the sea.
It is so arid that mountains that reach as high as 6885 m are completely free of glaciers and, in the southern part from 25°S to 27°S, may have been glacier-free throughout the Quaternary, though permafrost extends down to an altitude of 4400 m and is continuous above 5600 m.
Many of the them stayed on the run through miles of arid thorn bush until they reached the town of Agok early Sunday morning.
Holocene pedogenic change and climatic and anthropogenic factors on a loess tableland in the semi-arid region of the middle reaches of the Yellow River drainage basin were investigated.
