wadi
Example Sentences
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The desert riverbed, or wadi, had already subsided back to a trickle.
From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2023
Umm al-Hiran lies in a wadi, or small valley, not far from the large town of Beersheba at the top end of the Negev desert.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2012
One last stretch of exposed terrain remained, a shallow wadi we had crossed to get to Devon Hill.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2012
“It shows a very strong sensitivity to the geology in the choice of colors for the rock, and also in the little colored spots that represent the gravel on the wadi floor,” Harrell said.
From National Geographic
Morris owed his entire fortune, if his tale could be believed, to the magical apparition of an unearthly kind in some lonely wadi among the Bedouins.
From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Blackwood, Algernon
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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Africa - Introductory
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