Thesaurus results for WADI

wadi

noun

Definition of wadi

as in gully

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Recent Examples of wadi On the way to the wadi, visitors can detour to the ruins of the frankincense capital of Samharam or drive up Jebel Samhan for a view of the clouds and a Baobao forest. — Anna Zacharias, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2026 New geophysical surveys and coring of the wadi would shed more light on the hydrological aspects of the area, while other surveys might reveal where the eastward tunnels of the pyramid lead. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2024 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wadi

Noun

Sarah’s partner Elijah, Karissa and I continued up into the mountains, scrambling over loose rocks to get closer to a gully carved into the side of a mountain towering behind the pools.

— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2026
The dark form of the bear was rounding the ridges and gullies, appearing and disappearing among the brush in the direction of the head of the canyon.

— Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 15 July 2026

Definition of gully

Noun

French authorities wanted to honor the ‘’blood spilled″ during WWI by Muslim soldiers who died in trenches of Verdun and beyond to defend France, Hafiz said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
The four-floor flagship is currently under restoration, with the building wrapped in hoarding featuring Burberry’s signature trench.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 17 July 2026

Definition of trench

Noun

Just last month, the probe tracked a frenetic cluster of 30 dust devils swirling through the canyons of Mamers Valles, also in the northern hemisphere.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 17 July 2026
Cass was sitting his heaving horse on the rim of the canyon, looking down at some sprays of fresh dirt on the ground below him.

— Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 15 July 2026

Definition of canyon

Noun

Until a few years ago, much of the city’s sewage was released untreated into the Ganges via public drains, or nullahs, which discharged along the same bank as the ghats, where people habitually bathe.

— Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
The project involves the diversion of a nullah which is a lifeline for the area.

— Manish Chandra Mishra, Quartz, 10 June 2021

Definition of nullah

Noun

Unlike most of the relatively flat Dakota prairie, the Missouri breaks that make up much of Sutton Bay’s landscape create an assortment of coulees with cattail bottoms, perfect lairs to hide the shifty late-season pheasants.

— Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Atop that mesa, hidden in a sandstone coulee, our campfire burned a hole in the darkness.

— Outdoor Life, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2020