1.   I felt thrilled to be back in Abyssinia and stared entranced at the arid landscape of the Danakil desert.

2.   It was a reminder, so necessary in such an arid political landscape, that politics, even in the postmodern period, has consequences.

3.   The arid landscape and sandy soil were nothing like the fertile green village fields described to her by elders in her camp.

4.   The arid landscape around Reno, Nev., has been more parched than usual during the current water year.

5.   There was an inexplicable rainstorm in Phoenix on the day before the regional, but then the sun came out in the arid landscape.

6.   Welcome to wine country, Washington-style, an improbable arid landscape scorched by summer heat and rattled by winter cold.

7.   Two Ethiopian soldiers lay lifeless in the Eritrean trenches cut into the arid landscape, where they had alone pushed their final affront into enemy sanctum.