The mountains underneath were arid as craters on the moon.
出自: A. KoestlerIt looked like good farming country, in contrast to the arid appearance of the land in so many parts of Greece.
出自: E. Roosevelt"an arid climate"
"a waterless well"
"miles of waterless country to cross"
"a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"
"a desiccate romance"
"a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"