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

Since then, he’s been drywashing, a waterless process that uses air to separate heavy materials, such as gold, from the lighter dirt and sediment.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

Alchemie is not the only company attempting a nearly waterless dye process.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2024

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

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2022

By Friday the flower hung down over the rim of the waterless vase, its dead stump of a head shedding yellow dust in the pencil groove.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli