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
Steps away was the freshly painted but waterless pool, behind a locked chain-link fence.
From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2023
Several preliminary schemes call for filling the 20,500-square-foot basin with — no illusion — a waterless meadow.
From Seattle Times • May 4, 2023
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
