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

One day Mr. Kamoya went out for a walk along the waterless Nariokotome River.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2022

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

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman