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

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

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

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