aridity

• “The region is considered to be an island of long-term aridity in a sea of climatic change.”

  Kaokoveld desert

• “We are already observing what appear to be trends towards increasing, long-term aridity in parts of the world.”

  RealClimate

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “Good is set against evil; life against death; aridity, fecundity; forests, deserts; past, future.”

  How Poems Work: George Murray’s Hunter

• “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)

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Chronicling a World Apart

• “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

• “On the slope the blossoms of the wine-wooded manzanita filled the air with springtime odors, while the leaves, wise with experience, were already beginning their vertical twist against the coming aridity of summer.”

  All Gold Cañon

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