driest
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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In 2025, the Met Office announced Gloucestershire had become the driest place in the West of England, with the county experiencing the lowest average rainfall in the region over the past 30 years.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
Provisional data for Shoeburyness in Essex for example shows that it has been the driest April on record, receiving only 0.6mm of rain recorded in the month - just 2% of the monthly average.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
There were extremely wet winters in 2022 and 2023, followed by one of the driest periods on record in the fall and winter of 2024.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
Agriculture along Peru's coast has always been difficult because the region is among the driest environments on Earth.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026
The people said that even in the driest years nobody could ever remember a time when the spring had dried up.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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