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dry valley

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noun

  1. a valley originally produced by running water but now waterless

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The excavation site at Les Varines on Jersey is located just north of St Helier, at the head of a dry valley that drops towards the sea.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2020

As daylight came, the lonely cluster of buildings on the edge of the great dry valley hummed with nervous tension.

From Time Magazine Archive

So on November 8, 1973, Vishniac, his new microbiology equipment and a geologist companion were transported by helicopter from McMurdo Station to an area near Mount Balder, a dry valley in the Asgard range.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Nali, his grandma, rushed out of her mobile home, which sat in the middle of a wide, dry valley, waving her arms in large circles at him.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Let it be enough to say, that our favourite haunt in all the gardens is a little dry valley, beneath the loftiest group of trees. 

From At Last by Kingsley, Charles

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