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

Several preliminary schemes call for filling the 20,500-square-foot basin with — no illusion — a waterless meadow.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2023

Other international efforts have engaged worries about a waterless world, such as a 2009 campaign by Israel’s Water Authority that featured a television ad studded with celebrities who dried out and cracked as they spoke.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2022

This land was waterless, furred with the cacti which could store water and with the great-rooted brush which could reach deep into the earth for a little moisture and get along on very little.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck