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

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

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

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2022

For at long intervals on that highway cisterns had been built for the use of troops sent in haste through the waterless regions.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien