[
UK
/wˈɔːtələs/
]
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
- Not so good for the enveloping showers some of us prefer i.e. water comes straight down, rather than spreading into a cone, which means sides of shoulders, arms, etc. are waterless, which is just not OK. Archive 2009-01-01
- There are stalls on cookware for waterless and fatless cooking, herbal medicine, and home-made health products.
- A broken blue line means the course of a waterless valley.
- a waterless well
- Other touches at the office, such as waterless urinals and low-flow plumbing fixtures, are sometimes overlooked during energy-saving projects. Fore, right!
- The terrain varied from dismal rows of dunes to baked claypan, rock-tiled wasteland to savage, waterless mountains.
- ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sinks with sensors, what's nicknamed a nuclear hand-dryer, even a waterless urinal. CNN Transcript May 14, 2009
- So it wants to set up a pilot program in which at least some fund-raisers will be asked to volunteer to use a new "waterless" cleaning product. Towns May Shut Off Tap
- He contrasted the present with the past; this fever-stricken and waterless village with the great city which was called the healthiest in the world. By the Ionian Sea