Examples of wadi in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The fresh air, the space while clambering over rocks in a wadi, or valley, and the austere style of the Bear Grylls camp appears for now to offer the opposite of that. — Jon Gambrell, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2020 The fresh air, the space while clambering over rocks in a wadi, or valley, and the austere style of the Bear Grylls camp appears for now to offer the opposite of that. — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020 Another of Bogaczewicz’s photographs captures a Saudi family having a picnic under a highway overpass, much as their bedouin ancestors might have stopped their caravansary by a desert wadi to have a meal. — Wired, 26 Nov. 2019 Laughter of couples crossing the lawn, sinking into the darkness of the wadi. — Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019 But in the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire began a new settlement at Jerash, mostly on the eastern bank of the wadi, on top of the ancient remains of that half of the city. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018 The spring that filled the Birketein reservoir, where modern residents swim, would have supplied about a quarter of the ancient city, along with water from upstream in the wadi. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018 One geologist, Ernie Berg, noticed that a wadi, or ancient riverbed, took a mysterious turn. — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 16 June 2018 In northern Jordan, along a wadi once called the Golden River, the ancient city of Jerash sits uneasily alongside its modern namesake. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018

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