arid

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• have: Some feel that OUR hi-tech version of that high-performance vehicle now has to have wings arid noisy jet engines.

Modifies a noun

• steppe: This remote and arid steppe across which Ghengis Khan marched his vast army, was once the haunt of nomadic farmers.
• desert: Will Britain become an arid desert or a frozen waste?
• canyon: These are not the arid canyons you normally associate with Arizona.
• scrub: Eventually we will reach the pass and the lush cloud forests give way first to Puna then arid montane scrub.
• gorge: Trek over wild rugged mountains; through arid gorges; attempt an ascent of Jebel Toubkal, the highest mountain in North Africa.
• plateau: They would pass through wonderful forests at first and then have to march for 200 miles over the lofty arid plateau of Tibet.

Modifying Another Word

• extremely: Farming in these extremely arid conditions is made possible only with forced irrigation.
• rather: When images started to come to his mind they were of walking down a rather arid valley.
• very: Kenya: Found across much of the country except in the very arid areas of the NE.
• increasingly: Something struck him which linked directly with the dream-life which alone these days motivated his increasingly arid quest.
• seasonally: Outlines of the problems of unsustainable land management in arid and seasonally arid Mediterranean and tropical environments, in particular water use and salinity.
• mostly: Although it is mostly arid, there are several high mountains ( Mount.

Used with adjective complement

• become: I recall a time some years back when prayer and worship had become particularly arid.