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UK
/wˈɔːtələs/
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ADJECTIVE
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lacking sufficient water or rainfall
an arid climate
miles of waterless country to cross
a waterless well
How To Use waterless In A Sentence
- The huanaco, happily for it, exists in a barren, desolate region, in its greatest part waterless and uninhabitable to human beings; and the chapter-heading refers to a singular instinct of the dying animals, in very many cases allowed, by the exceptional conditions in which they are placed, to die naturally. The Naturalist in La Plata
- The existence of the lake, to the north of the waterless Kalahari Desert, was already known to Europeans but Livingstone was the first European to see it.
- A broken blue line means the course of a waterless valley.
- The wanderer is like a dehydrated traveller in a waterless desert, or a lover longing to see the distant beloved.
- When they become waterless , they are silent , When it is hot, they vanish from their place.
- miles of waterless country to cross
- The sprawling story of how extraplanetary imperialists impose a mission civilisatrice on the dune-dwelling, sandworm-herding "savages" of an almost waterless world is rich in historic, anthropological and archaeological allusions. Any Drop to Drink?
- Of course the Mongols, their flocks, and their neighbors didn't actually live in the waterless Gobi Desert, but further north in grassy steppes, rising toward forested hill country.
- One can stand at these sites and almost go back thousands of years and visualize the strenuous efforts required to simply exist in this waterless, uncultivable, inhospitable land.
- Ironically, this 'waterless' plain has 50-200 feet of marine sediments. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]