Seasonally dry ravines

Usage examples of wadis.

From above it resembles a lobed leaf, like that of an oak or maple, with side wadis branching off to left and right.

Catharine Roehrig, one of the few Egyptologists who have visited the area of the southwest wadis, was good enough to tell me where I went wrong in my initial description.

He spent several months out in the southwest wadis, where the princesses' tomb was found.

You don't mean to give up Deir el Medina and Medinet Habu in favor of the western wadis, do you?

Once Emerson got the bit in his teeth it was impossible to turn him aside, and wandering the western wadis alone was dangerous, even for an old hand like his father.

It was one of the longest wadis in the region, stretching all the way down into the desert.

If they mount an expedition to the southwest wadis I will be surprised.

He spent several months out in the southwest wadis, where the princesses’ tomb was found.

The man had stumbled across him one afternoon near the great divide of the wadis of northern Arabia and remarked that the sky seemed strangely dark for that hour, which indeed it was, because a comet happened to be passing overhead.

Clattering and backfiring, the tractor roared down wadis and rumbled over mountains covering distances that had taken dozens of painful camel marches in his father's day.

Bermann and I have theo­rized that three wadis written about by Williamson in 1838 make up Zerzura.

Williamson said three wadis formed Zerzura, but he never located them and this is considered fable.

I could wake and raise my eyes to the map of old settlements along the Mediter­ranean coast—Gazala, Tobruk, Mersa Matruh—and south of that the hand-painted wadis, and surrounding those the shades of yellowness that we invaded, tried to lose ourselves in.

When they were spotted from the air they hid in the wadis for as long as three days, completely still.

Long-drawn wadis offered cover and thus protection against surprise attacks.