Whilst the general character of the scenery is one of sterility and desolation, some of the wadies which run down to the sea are oases of the utmost fertility and beauty.
The wadies which seam the mountain-sides are dry in the summer, but in the winter form the beds of roaring torrents.
Advancing across wadiesand scaling knolls upon the desert, the troops were instructed to open fire with ball cartridge.
Farther on we had to turn aside to avoid wadies and khors, up which the Nile had flowed.
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.
Amaj and Ghoran are two Wadieswhich commence in the Harra (volcanic region) of the Beni Solaym, and reach the sea.
To join his column with all honor to himself, he had to work back over the wadies he had crossed and circle the gardens that stood in his way.
Retiring into shadow were the darker outlines of the surrounding circle of hills, rived by intervals of black night where wadies entered.
Inland a few wadies supply water for irrigation, but as they run westward toward the Jordan they soon cut deep torrent beds through the rocks and thus become practically useless for purposes of agriculture.
Many smallwadies cut down through these western hills.
In one of these wadies was the famous spring of Kadesh-barnea, still known as Ain Kdes, the Holy Spring.
In the wadies which run down to the Dead Sea thousands of camels are bred, while on the hills above are seen at every point flocks of cattle, sheep, and goats.
Their course was almost due westward toward the point where the Plain of Gennesaret and the wadies behind lead to the heights of upper Galilee.
Where the tributary wadies have cut down the soft limestone, nature's castles stand out, guarding the broad natural highway from the desert to the sea.
Among the hills and deep wadies of the land of Gilead he felt most secure.
The wadies in the south, such as Wady Nimrin and Wady Heshban, avail little for irrigation, since their channels are far beneath the level of the surrounding plateau.
The Gadites were equally exposed to attack from every side, but they were more strongly intrenched among the hills and deep wadies that lie south of the Jabbok.
It was doubtless one of the many wadies which run into the deep Ghor or cleft of the Jordan on its eastern side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wadies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
