Sample Sentences forarid (editor-reviewed)
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My skin dries in the arid desert climate.arid = dry
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It was a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata.arid = lacking vitality or spirit
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Atticus's voice had lost its comfortableness; he was speaking in his arid, detached professional voice. (source)arid = lifeless (lacking vitality)
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The mind is beset by light and space, the kinesthetic novelty of aridity, high temperature, and wind. (source)aridity = dryness
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the arid flatlands (source)arid = lacking sufficient water or rainfall
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The arid voice, low and matter-of-fact, had an answer for everything.† (source)
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The arid, imposing mountains sat along deep gorges and soared to jagged peaks.† (source)
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The aridity of that life, which had also been mine!† (source)
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But he took this very aridly, which wasn't to be wondered at, considering the tramp appearance I made, in the wrack of my good clothes, inflamed at the eyes, and looking garbage-nourished.† (source)
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People there use this aridness as a blanket excuse for all of the hot, smoggy city's excesses.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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In the arid wind I began to hear sounds, though there was no life for miles.† (source)
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Its dry pale surface stretched severely onward, unbroken by a single figure, vehicle, or mark, save some occasional brown horse-droppings which dotted its cold aridity here and there.† (source)
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Angus's aridly correct voice had become lulling; he concentrated on Leora as he would have concentrated on dissecting a guinea pig.† (source)
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Arid almost as soon as I realized what I had said, I wished I hadn't.† (source)
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In all directions the grade sloped gently from the centre, where there was a reservoir, or deep marble basin, broken at intervals by little gates which, when raised, emptied the water into sluices bordering the walks—a cunning device for the rescue of the place from the aridity too prevalent elsewhere in the region.† (source)
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Aridly it drew down the thin corners of his shapely mouth.† (source)
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