The Atbara and forty small khors will be bridged, and the work be completed in twelve months.
In some places, however, it was rough and full of loose stones, and the sand lay deep and soft in several khors and wadies that had to be crossed.
What with winding and twisting to avoid flooded khors or shallow gulleys we marched over twenty miles I fancy.
Every inch of Surgham hill and the yellow sand ridges, gravel mounds, and shallow khors to the south and west of it had been explored by the Lancers the day before.
The dervish main columns which had got shelter in low khors re-appeared, and without pause joined in the hot rush for our zereba.
The ground the army passed over was broken, and there was scrub with several small khors to cross, so the force proceeded slowly and cautiously.
Both these conditions made it hard for cavalry, and still more for artillery, to move freely; and the difficulties were complicated by frequent holes and small khors full of long grass.
At times the horses floundered to their girths in wet sand; at others rocky khors obstructed the march; horses and camels blundered and fell.
Several shallow khors traversed the road, and these rocky ditches, filled with a strange, sweet-scented grass, delayed the brigades until the pace was hardly two miles an hour.
There will be many khors now and in each one of them we will find a safe hiding-place.
When finally the Bedouins discerned from the situation and form of the khors that Assuan was behind them, a great burden fell off Idris' breast.
Not one of the streams is perennial, but in times of heavy rainfall the waters of some khors reach the Bahr-el-Homr tributary of the Bahr-el-Ghazal.
In the neighbourhood of the khors the vegetation is fairly rich.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "khors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
