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Example sentences for: arid

How can you use “arid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Its covers are as flashy as ever, though an arid cleanliness reigns within; it resembles nothing so much as an alumnae magazine.
The first time I saw Affliction , it struck me as both arid and pretentious; the second, arriving with no narrative expectations, I found myself more tolerant of the pacing and more drawn in by the performances.
The landscape is alternately rich and arid, lush and desolate.
But Chris and his missus are having an arid patch, sexually speaking, so Toni's exhortations prompt heady flashbacks to less confining times: Chris' days as an arty photographer in Paris, when he learned how to make love to les femmes from a lusciously soft-thighed coquette called Annick (Elsa Zylberstein).
It's odd that you started our correspondence by congratulating the young Brits for their raucous theory-free and politically incorrect humor and you should end up with Hatoum, who could have been invented for October magazine (and virtually was invented by the arid Marxist journal Third Text ).