: the bed or valley of a stream in regions of southwestern Asia and northern Africa that is usually dry except during the rainy season and that often forms an oasis : gully, wash
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: a shallow usually sharply defined depression in a desert region
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThe 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 See More