How To Use Aridity In A Sentence
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Animals like the blue wildebeest and hartebeest, not truly adapted to aridity, must migrate to obtain food and water.
Kalahari xeric savanna
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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
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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.)
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The cold aridity of the weather infected with thick style of the northeast dialect.
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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.
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Polar cold may be less constricting than other factors, for example aridity or intense seasonality, that characterize polar regions.
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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.
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Because of the extreme aridity of its habitat, the addax moves over considerable distances in search of food.
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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
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There is another irony about desert sand dunes: They are a product of both aridity and water.
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Loess is a fine-grained aeolian sediment, typically liberated by the grinding action of glaciers, which may be transported great distances and indicates both windiness and aridity.
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A heightened sense of beauty somehow seems to have pervaded the desert region, perhaps to balance or counter the extreme aridity.
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a sanctuary throughout the Ice Ages when much of the region was rendered uninhabitable due to hyperaridity," Rose said.
FOXNews.com
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The cold aridity of the weather infected with thick style of the northeast dialect.
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The aridity is a resource, however, in the matter of wool, the superior quality of which is due largely to the deficient rainfall.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
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There was a world cooling - eight hypotheses exist to explain it! - with intense aridity that created Australia's sub-zones such as south-western and north-western Australia.
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On the floor of the first gallery, a space meant to represent aridity, would be a few shallow pools of oil, small amounts of glass and liberal sprinklings of red powder.
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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
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The perception of raw aridity is belied by a surprising amount of life: insects and lizards, the colorful opportunists.
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Sometimes sloth takes on an acute form known as aridity or barrenness in all things that pertain to God.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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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 Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
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My idea of a desert is an eternal agony, plotted by the fury of the aridity, by the implacable confusion of a sun which, trampled by the wind, melts with the sand, until there is no other landscape than the sand dominating the sky, the ground, the wind.
Flowers in the Desert
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Though it gave him a profound subject, one has to wonder how much the aridity of Mphahlele's native soil limited his ability to fulfill his artistic promise.
Chronicling a World Apart
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Commenting on your list of several lethalities, some might hear me say, in the face of all aridity ...
Month-end inventory (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Expenditures for purchasing fodder and the water supply for the animals receive more attention with increasing land-use intensity and dissemination of animal traction as well as aridity, meaning an increased load on family labour, especially the children.
Chapter 9
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More than anything I was struck by how incredibly green and lush everything looked after the dryness of the Spanish countryside. I have not been to Spain before, and I was quite taken aback by the aridity of it all.
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The region is considered to be an island of long-term aridity in a sea of climatic change.
Kaokoveld desert
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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.
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Intensified upwelling would enhance aridity along the west coast of South America by preventing moist air masses of the Pacific anticyclone from encroaching landwards.
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The perception of raw aridity is belied by a surprising amount of life: insects and lizards, the colorful opportunists.
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We are already observing what appear to be trends towards increasing, long-term aridity in parts of the world.
RealClimate
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Good is set against evil; life against death; aridity, fecundity; forests, deserts; past, future.
How Poems Work: George Murray’s Hunter
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By the way, Darwin was a naturalist and most would take his comments about Australia's limited prospects as relating to soil quality and aridity, and the subsequently smaller potential population.
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There is, says Vanessa, a huge sapless aridity in the world out there that needs slaking:
In the Desert, Prime Time
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How to survive heat and aridity: ecophysiology of the dikdik antelope.
Chapter 11
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My idea of a desert is an eternal agony, plotted by the fury of the aridity, by the implacable confusion of a sun which, trampled by the wind, melts with the sand, until there is no other landscape than the sand dominating the sky, the ground, the wind.
Flowers in the Desert
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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.
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High terrigenous dust concentrations reflect greater aridity in West Africa.
Monsoon Moberg « Climate Audit
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Saint Francis and Saint Anthony, the Seraphic Founder and the Learned Apostle (meo episcopus) of the Franciscan Order, are two great "figures" [not real figures, mind you, but the fake kind that need to go in quotation marks] who have stirred the perpetual engine [the what?] of humble and simple spirituality, a perpetual source for all people who are suffering from an existential aridity.
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