wadies
- plural of wady.
Example Sentences
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To trap even more water, the Naba-taeans built good-sized stone dams across the larger wadies; they cut channels along hilltops to divert water to fields that could use it best.
From Time Magazine Archive
Patient farmers guided by unlettered engineers threw stone walls across the wadies, or dry stream beds, so that the waters from the occasional flash floods could be trapped.
From Time Magazine Archive
The basic Nabataean trick was to throw stone walls across the wadies to delay flash floods.
From Time Magazine Archive
A British protectorate since 1839, Aden is a sun-scorched moonscape of thrusting volcanic mountains and rock-strewn wadies.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the neighborhood of the villages of Fezzan, some ninety in number, situated mostly in the wadies, or apologies for valleys, we find wheat, barley, and other grains under cultivation.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.
