wadi

A series of bridges had crossed the wadi, connecting the port area with the western side of the city.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2023

"If a huge flood happens the result will be catastrophic for the people of the wadi and the city," wrote hydrologist Abdelwanees A. R. Ashoor of Libya's Omar Al-Mukhtar University.

From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2023

Few outsiders have entered the wadi since the American academic Joseph J. Hobbs visited while researching his book “Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness,” in the early 1980s.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022

“It shows a very strong sensitivity to the geology in the choice of colors for the rock, and also in the little colored spots that represent the gravel on the wadi floor,” Harrell said.

From National Geographic

Near the water the soldiers made us climb down to the first story of a small wadi, where we sheltered under a shelf of rock which overhangs the whole end of it.

From Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore

The results showed the tools were likely to have been used approximately 84 thousand years ago and then abandoned on the banks of the wadis and subsequently buried over time.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2023

Access to the area is expected to be difficult after the rainy season starts because large streams, known as wadis, are set to cut it off from supplies.

From Reuters ● May 23, 2023

Many of Oman’s wadis, or desert valleys, dry up in the scorching summer months, but at Wadi Bani Khalid, wide pools of water glisten year-round.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

The sediment layers include muddy, silty deposits from roaring rivers called wadis that form in the desert during once-every-quarter-century rains.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 24, 2022

The High Hall of the Arryns was aglow with the light of fifty torches, burning in the sconces along the wadis.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin