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

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

And then I add, “It’s the stuff they use in waterless urinals.”

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman