aridity

How To Use aridity In A Sentence

• Animals like the blue wildebeest and hartebeest, not truly adapted to aridity, must migrate to obtain food and water. Kalahari xeric savanna
• Sometimes easier words are changed into harder; as, burial, into sepulture or interment; dry [2], into desiccative; dryness, into siccity or aridity; fit, into paroxism; for the easiest word, whatever it be, can never be translated into one more easy. ' Life Of Johnson
• He has nothing more for you, nor you for him; but he may be rich in juices wherewithal to nourish the heart of another man, and their two lives, set together, may have an endosmose and exosmose whose result shall be richness of soil, grandeur of growth, beauty of foliage, and perfectness of fruit, while you and he would only have languished into aridity and a stunted crab-tree. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.)
• The cold aridity of the weather infected with thick style of the northeast dialect.
• For day after day south of Marzuk we saw nothing but stony wastes and sand dunes with never a blade of grass or bush to relieve the aridity.
• Polar cold may be less constricting than other factors, for example aridity or intense seasonality, that characterize polar regions.
• In both the northern and southern hemispheres aridity occurs at latitudes characterized by more or less permanent high pressure cells and hot dry subsiding air.
• Because of the extreme aridity of its habitat, the addax moves over considerable distances in search of food.
• In the same church I had the misfortune to see in the boxes a pair of horrible mummies, decked off with robes and ornaments -- a count of Nassau-Saarwerden and his daughter, according to the custodian -- an unhappy pair who, having escaped our common doom of corruption by some physical aridity or meagreness, have been compelled to leave their tombs and attitudinize as works of art. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
• There is another irony about desert sand dunes: They are a product of both aridity and water.