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Meanings of arid land in English

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Usage of arid land in English
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They wound back and forth across the arid land for days.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
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An arid land, sparsely vegetated, with tar pits and seeps all over the place.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
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It seemed incredible that such fertility and abundance could exist in this dry, arid land.
A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán
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Beyond the unfenced balcony, arid land sloped steeply away, offering an uninterrupted view of the sea.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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A heat-haze lay upon the arid land that stretched away upon either hand toward gray-brown hills.
The Mucker
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The large, spiky-leaved agave thrives on high, arid land and can take eight years to reach maturity.
Reuters
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By 2050, they claim, much of the arid land can be restored to a productive and sustainable state.
Wired
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For locals, the discovery reinforced prevailing wisdom that this arid land exists beyond the raking claws of time.
Wired
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It is an arid land of mountains pocked by dried-up creeks, along with sparse forests and rocky plains.
Reuters
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This was pretty arid land before.
Cibola Burn
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The arid land will require water; the cut-over land will require clearing; and the swamp land must be drained.
The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
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A wide belt stretching westward from the one-hundredth meridian to the foot-hills of the Rocky Mountains is arid land.
Stories of Later American History
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He sent Bland swinging southward, while he leaned a little and watched the swift-sliding panorama of arid land beneath.
Skyrider
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But the flora slowly dissipated, and the creature had eventually taken her into a large stretch of arid land.
Hunters in the Dark
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Five or six times as much arid land has been reclaimed by private enterprise as by the Reclamation Service.
Community Civics and Rural Life
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A hot wind blew over the arid land, parching the crops and sucking the life from the River Nile.
Nefertiti
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common