(a.) Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(2) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(3) The influence of salt mixtures consisting of Ca(H2PO4)2, trace elements, CaSO4, CaCO3, Na2CO3, NaCl and K2SO4 in different combinations on the nitrifying power, evolution of carbon dioxide and the total number of bacteria was studied in arid soils (sandy and alluvial) and semi-humid ones (chernozem and rendzina).
(4) In a summit in Paris last week, the west African nations of Cameroon, Chad and Niger agreed to each contribute a battalion to form a border patrol troop based around the arid Sahelian belt, large swaths of which have fallen under the control of Islamist terrorists in recent years.
(5) The chancellor was full of jokes at Labour’s expense yesterday: gags about Wallace and Gromit, Emily Thornberry, the arid Red Planet.
(6) The present study investigated the release from dogs and subsequent survival of Echinococcus eggs in Turkana huts, water-holes and in the semi-arid environment.
(7) In the arid Ica region where Peruvian asparagus production is concentrated, this thirsty export vegetable has depleted the water resources on which local people depend.
(8) This was found to be the method of choice in coccidiosis control in replacement pullets in the semi-arid subtropical climate of Rhodesia.
(9) Distribution of the lesion follows that of trachoma among contemporary Aboriginal people, with the highest frequencies occurring in the hotter, arid portions of the Australian continent.
(10) Tens of thousands of civilians fleeing the vast, arid north say they are caught between the militants and brutal army reprisals.
(11) The town, about 80km from Somalia in Kenya's arid Garissa region, has been drawing in refugees for more than two decades, throwing up complex problems that fuel Kenya's frustration at having handled more than its share of the "Somalia problem", says Badu Katelo, Kenya's acting commissioner for refugees.
(12) arabiensis is the predominant or exclusive species in dry and semi-arid areas.
(13) Our sandfly probe consists of a 3.2 kb fragment of the intergenic 'non-transcribed' spacer of rDNA of P. papatasi that we have detected only in this species: it is present in all six geographically isolated populations tested (from Tunisia through to India) but cannot be detected in the morphologically similar P. (Phlebotomus) duboscqi Neveu-Lemaire, the vector of Leishmania major south of the Sahara; it also cannot be detected in Phlebotomus species of the subgenera Larroussius and Paraphlebotomus that together with P. papatasi are the dominant man-biting sandflies in north African foci of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, where (as in many arid regions of western Asia) P. papatasi is believed to be the sole vector of L. major.
(14) Arid subtropical climate zones are expanding poleward.
(15) The Kalgoorlie-Boulder-Kambalda area in arid inland Western Australia receives its water supply from distant Perth, through a pipeline constructed in the fabulous goldrush period at the turn of the century.
(16) Although environmental temperature has often been seen as the primary factor determining reproductive cycles in reptiles, this study suggests that temperature is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for successful reproduction and that the availability of adequate resources may assume an overriding importance, especially in arid habitats where annual rainfall may be highly unpredictable.
(17) "It was shortly after the big four-oh, in a car park somewhere in the arid wastes of suburbia, when I was Tasered with the realisation that I would never again have to go on a crash diet" is how South African novelist Lauren Liebenberg opens her fiery burst of autobiography in the new book.
(18) Altogether 900 people were examined in different sites of the semiarid and arid Turkana region.
(19) This article discusses epidemiology and control of equine parasites in the southern United States, where climates vary from warm temperate to subtropical and from humid in the southeast to arid in the southwest.
(20) Altogether 23 male patients with Reiter's disease (RD) were followed-up in an arid zone.
Badlands
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Her real passion has always been 1970s character films: Badlands, Midnight Cowboy and Bonnie And Clyde.
(2) Viktor Nemets plays the decent, dogged driver who trundles through lawless rural badlands before grinding his gears in a gutted community where the menfolk have gone to the bad and the police are too busy tracing nude pictures out of girlie magazines to do anything about it.
(3) Useful link navajonationparks.org Petrified Forest national park Petrified Forest National Park, Badlands, Arizona.
(4) You are in the system, safe from the unregulated badlands of Nickelodeon and its oceans of advertising, the looping hours of Peppa Pig and American imports that run through the night so that other, feral children (not yours) can watch cartoons at 2am while snuffling from bowls of refined sugar.
(5) In both the Merseyside borough's post-industrial badlands, and neighbourhoods that are all golf courses and double garages, mad blood has been stirring for months.
(6) As part of the Best of 2013 feature, Apple has also picked its favourite apps of the year, with language-learning app Duolingo winning App of the Year and Ridiculous Fishing Game of the Year for iPhone, and Disney Animated and Badland taking the respective honours on iPad.
(7) Last year mobile gamers got to play that game, Badlands, Ridiculous Fishing, Tiny Thief, The Room, Adventure Town, Rymdkapsel, Impossible Road, Republique, Papa Sangre II, Blackbar and Device 6, to name but a few.
(8) Bathed in glorious gold and brown autumn foliage, the tranquil towns around Lake Winnipesaukee could not seem further away from the Islamic State’s desert plains, the Ebola-stricken villages of west Africa or the badlands beneath the southern US border.
(9) Not to be put off, the British comic’s latest film Grimsby has drawn fury for depicting the Lincolnshire port as a rundown badlands strewn with litter and peopled by beer-swigging children and hooligan parents.
(10) In 1982 a harsh, bare-bones solo album called Nebraska took its tone from Terrence Malick's film Badlands, the story of teenage killers inspired by the Charlie Starkweather murder spree of the 1950s.
(11) Two years after Badlands , Malick went through his first divorce, from film assistant Jill Jakes, while working on his next movie, Days of Heaven – which was eventually released in 1978 starring Richard Gere, despite Malick's desire to cast John Travolta in the role.
(12) His "mythic" status has been built on the reverence for his films: Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978), The Thin Red Line (1998), The New World (2005), and now The Tree of Life , which was mostly filmed in 2008-9.
(13) Observe a man by the sea pulling a 20ft-high ball of string, or a giant eye peering ominously over a naked shoulder in some parched badland.
(14) Smooth single track gives way to tight curves and rocky steeps that appeal to intermediate and expert riders, and the scenery is outstanding, with weathered badlands and red-rock canyons cut by the Colorado river.
(15) The NK models have the important property that, as the parameter K increases, the "ruggedness" of the NK landscape varies from a single peaked "Fujiyama" landscape to a multi-peaked "badlands" landscape.
(16) This they did, showing that they are not just a force in the badlands of the south and east, but also capable of causing serious trouble in Kabul itself.
(17) "Look, I'll be honest: Badlands changed my life, it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.
(18) Badland Badland was one of many well-loved indie games to make the leap from iOS to Android this year, as developers recognised the growing potential of Google's platform for games.
(19) His visits to China's provincial badlands do not usually end on such a light note.
(20) Sanchez was born in the badlands of Sinaloa, a state in north west Mexico known best for the quality of its marijuana and the fiery temperament of its inhabitants.