wady

[ wah-dee ]

noun,plural wa·dies.

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How to use wady in a sentence

  • I can tell you it was a gloomy place, as barren and deserted as some of those Arabian wadies that you have been describing to me.

    The Moon Metal | Garrett P. Serviss
  • Farther on we had to turn aside to avoid wadies and khors, up which the Nile had flowed.

    Khartoum Campaign, 1898 | Bennet Burleigh
  • Many of last year's birds are dead, but there are nests in the cypresses, and twitterings among the branches in the wadies.

  • Among the hills and deep wadies of the land of Gilead he felt most secure.

    Biblical Geography and History | Charles Foster Kent
  • Their general course was now eastward, through the wadies, or dry beds of winter torrents.

    The Rand-McNally Bible Atlas | Jesse L. Hurlbut