waterless
Example Sentences
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On a misty winter's day in the English midlands, engineers struggled to drag stranded narrowboats from a waterless, mud-filled canal that collapsed weeks earlier, in a delicate, multi-million-pound rescue operation.
From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026
Alchemie is not the only company attempting a nearly waterless dye process.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2024
How will we store more water, protect coast lines and ports, manage an influx of climate refugees fleeing the waterless and burning Southern states, and prepare for any number of calamitous conditions?
From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2022
The park will also water the landscape with reclaimed water instead of domestic supplies, and the urinals at the park will be waterless.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022
The lake had been formed and dug to a uniform depth of nine feet, with small wooden boat docks fingering out from its waterless shores where the most desirable concrete slabs had been poured.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
