11.   Hunted for its precious skin, the beige, spotted animal also has been dying because it can find little prey in the arid desert mountains where it lives.

12.   In neighboring Jordan, the storm stranded motorists, cut power lines and dumped snow into the normally arid deserts.

13.   It was a scorching summer day, with plenty of grass and sagebrush to burn in the arid desert country of south-central Washington.

14.   Test sites are scattered from the frigid northeast to the arid western deserts.

15.   The arid desert climate proved irresistible then, and still does.

16.   From the road that winds through the sparkling snow-covered White Mountains, Madoo is indistinguishable from other hills in the arid desert in eastern Afganistan.

17.   They heavily rely on food imports because most of their land is an arid desert.