wadi

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2023

An academic published a paper in 2022 said that repeated flooding threatened the dams built in a wadi, a usually dry riverbed, above the city and urged immediate maintenance.

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

In the thick of night, through the alcoves of the mountains, over their barren peaks, down through the wadi of oblivion, silently they pass.

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares