How to Use qanat in a Sentence

qanat

noun

• Many farmers abandoned the ancient qanats for motorized wells.
  — Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
• For millennia, qanats—ingenious underground aqueducts—balanced survival with scarcity across the central plateau of Iran.
  — Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
• Qanat systems Ancient Persian engineers developed qanats to supply communities in dry regions with groundwater.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2026
• President Mohammad Khatami, who was in office from 1997 to 2005, grew up in Yazd province in central Iran, an arid region that relied on qanats for survival and development.
  — Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
• Those traditional systems are now collapsing alongside aquifers, and ancient settlements in Yazd in central Iran, Kerman in southeast Iran, and Khorasan in northeastern Iran have been abandoned as qanats dried up, aquifers caved in, and land subsided.
  — Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025