wadi

Example Sentences

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In the last two years alone, scientists have studied the images to track rock glacier movements in Central Asia, shoreline changes in Saudi Arabia, wadi trees in eastern Egyptian deserts and ice loss in Peru.

From New York Times

The fresh air, the space while clambering over rocks in a wadi, or valley, and the austere style of the Bear Grylls camp appears for now to offer the opposite of that.

From Washington Times

From there, a convoy of lorries carrying dozens of bewildered refugees drove a two-day journey, travelling only by night and hiding in a concealed wadi during the day.

From BBC

Traveling from the towering mountainous plateaus of Yemen, which are now ravaged by war, the coffee bean made its journey to the lush green wadis of the Jazan region.

From Scientific American

I had never heard the term “wadi” before arriving in Jordan: It refers simply to a valley carved by water.

From Washington Post