Sentence examples for become arid from inspiring English sources

Such a ravenous organ can be viewed as an unfavorable encumbrance because it is known that the Plio-Pleistocene was marked by recurring ice ages where large, polar glaciations would frequently cause the African savannah to become arid, hot and nutritionally scarce [ 64, 112].

Inland the climate becomes arid, with colder winters and hotter summers.

But they don't have Mr. Bokaer's charisma, and the movement becomes arid without it.

And free speech becomes arid or venomous without a spirit that extends to everyone the recognition of his or her humanity.

The discovery of 7-million-year-old dune deposits throughout northern Chad in 2006, however, suggests that the region became arid during the Miocene Epoch (23 million to 5.3 million years ago).

Approximately 190 to 136 million years ago in the Jurassic the Colorado Plateau area's climate increasingly became arid until 150,000 square miles (388,000 km²) of western North America became a huge desert, not unlike the modern Sahara.

Apart from the usual story of how forests purify the air and provide numerous other invaluable benefits, we learn, for example, that when a forest was clearcut in Japan for farming, the humus blew away and the land became arid and infertile.

The biota here is relictual, largely related to distant Australian terrestrial humid-forest species which probably retreated underground as the climate became arid in the Miocene [17], [20], as did the fauna of the Western Shield [15].

These results evidence that arid and semi-arid areas of Southern Europe have become more arid, the rest of Europe seeing an increase in its wood land proportion, while seasonal amplitude in Northern Europe has decreased.

Her love life had become as arid as her creative life was rich.

Yet the authors present a strong case that the manner in which these inhabitants have coped with climatic uncertainty may offer compelling lessons for other regions that may become increasingly arid under the impact of climate change.