The arid breeze in the desert didn't provide much relief.    From LearnThat.org. 

A technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

An arid climate.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Closed irrigation canals are a must in arid regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth Policy Institute: Raising Water Productivity] Reference

Is Brooks talking about the movie industry in arid Hollywood, CA?.    From Wordnik.com.  [VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » “The Limits of Policy”] Reference

Shade, cold water and fresh breezes are the joys of life in arid Arabia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Human activities in arid urban environments can affect rainfall and water cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [US political stuff] Reference

He is a man of plain arid simple things, as he will tell you when he speaks to you.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Plea for the Canadian Northland] Reference

A hetchia grows in arid, low thorn forests on the western slope of the Sierra Madre Occidental.    From Wordnik.com.  [A hetchia grows in arid, low thorn forests on the western slope of the Sierra Madre Occidental.] Reference

Still, the book is often read in arid isolation, as merely a prophetic anticipation of more modern economic theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wealth Of Ideas] Reference

Cultivation: The candleabra cactus grows in arid conditions to a height of almost 40 feet, branching from a single trunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caladium, candleabra cactus and canna lily: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico] Reference

The verdict is out on silver nitrate - it seems to work at 55% humidity and above, but that does not do much in arid areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Global Warming Skeptics Engage In Denial And Spin Over New Academy Report; Gore Responds] Reference

"Shittim" means "acacias," which grow only in arid regions: implying that even the arid desert shall be fertilized by the blessing from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

This whole so-called arid and semi-arid region is by nature the stock range of the nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904] Reference

The so-called arid regions constitute two-fifths of the area of the United States, or some 1,200,000 square miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)] Reference

Alon Alex Gross’s fog and dew collectors provide a low-tech way for people in arid, developing regions to collect drinking water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cate Trotter | Inhabitat] Reference

21. wild beasts -- Hebrew, tsiyim, animals dwelling in arid wastes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Thus CAM works most efficiently in climates that have a large daily temperature range, such as arid lands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adaptations of desert plants] Reference

But pieces that put such information front-and-center generally get tagged with such criticisms as "arid," "academic," "intellectual," &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girder and Panel] Reference

The arid is made damp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heraclitus] Reference

But it may be a long hot - sorry "arid" summer, if it ever lasts that long!.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"arid" does not adequately characterize the soils, however, for they may vary in many ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture] Reference

This is the most arid, perfunctory presidential campaign in memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where The Anger Went] Reference

But only fiction could capture the arid surrealism of their daily routine.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Arab Woman Lifts The Veil] Reference

There's abundant luxury to be found even in the world's most arid locales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desert Luxe] Reference

The landscape around was arid scrub, the odd baobab tree broke the horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Blogs] Reference

He talked about prisons in Syria, slaughter in Jordan, arid exile in the gulf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Arafat Survive His Latest Blunder?] Reference

After such an arid patch of studio filmmaking, what a relief to encounter "Shrek.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts Extra: The Lessons Of Hollywood's Creative Crisis] Reference

One moment, he forces the reader on a joyless march through an arid policy debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [BILL'S SELF-PORTRAIT] Reference

That's a whine that echoes off the rocky, arid Dinaric Alps all along the Adriatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Escape To The Balkans] Reference

In the arid regions of the American West, water has always been a precious, liquid gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liquid Gold] Reference

But this time, at least, McKiernan will have deep reservoirs of power beneath the arid surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Low-Key Leader] Reference

In some ways, it's surprising that U. S.-style education survived for so long in such arid soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beware of Big Ideas] Reference

Unusually wet weather in California's desert is turning normally arid areas into spectacular gardens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Weather's Silver Lining] Reference

Sardar Sarovar was meant to generate 1,450 megawatts of electricity and irrigate arid sections of Gujarat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Awash In A River Of Rage] Reference

More than 1,500 years earlier, residents had dug stonelined aqueducts — qanats — deep below the arid ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cool, Clear Water] Reference

The diplomat described the Iraqi action as "devastating" for this arid area between the Euphrates and Tigress Rivers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter From The Iraq Border] Reference

But last year, when those formerly arid lands suddenly got three times their usual rainfall, villagers were panicked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Untold Harvest] Reference

And at the Soweto Country Club, government aid provides sprinklers to keep greens and fairways lush in the arid winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up From The Ashes] Reference

Her dabbling in fortune-telling and her ability to locate water in the most arid of deserts make her seem magical, almost witchlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother of Chile] Reference

One day in 1978, on the arid Laetoli plain of Tanzania, Leakey bent over an impression that looked as if it had been made by a human heel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witness To The Creation] Reference