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
While urban areas like Los Angeles are under mandatory drought restrictions to reduce strain on state reservoirs, many rural residents reliant on groundwater wells are waterless.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2022
Then came a difficult and unnerving descent down a rocky cliff face on the other side, a short walk through a dark, waterless valley, and delivery to the foot of another wall of rock.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
