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Fire destroyed many of the buildings, leaving behind about 10 houses on unirrigated land that can only be used for agriculture during the rainy season.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2021

But Arvizu, 68, told him the pasture would soon lie fallow — brown like the unirrigated land that surrounded it.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2021

But Kathy Klausner, a school secretary whose family has an unirrigated farm, said she wasn’t as certain.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2014

Farther away on the sere, unirrigated plain are the domed tents of herdsmen, their cooking fires glowing like terrestrial stars.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2010

It is an important ore-shipping point, surrounded also by good fruit-raising and agricultural lands, yet unirrigated.

From A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 by Howell, Ithamar