The floor of it was very up and down, and high rocks and little hills stood about, whereas the wadis are for the most part flat in the middle.
On the 8th those extortionate men of Wadi al Ain sent to say they would take us by the Wadi bin Ali, turning out of Wadi Hadhramout at Al Gran, crossing the Wadis bin Ali and Adim, and reaching Sa'ah, where we could branch off for Bir Borhut.
When we reached the tableland we had to go a long way round to avoid a good many little wadis which were all quite steep, before we reached the water.
The tribe of Al Jabber possess the parallel Wadis Adim and Bin Ali, and the road between them across the akaba is much traversed and apparently an ancient one.
The ground over which we travelled was extremely hilly, and the Battalion constantly descended into deep wadis and ascended over the steep ridges for practically the whole of the last four miles.
The country over which the line ran was composed of stony hills with deep wadis in the valleys, sometimes 500 feet below the summit of the surrounding hills.
From aeroplane maps sketches of the wadis had been reproduced, and each wadi had been allotted a familiar name; the local Arabic names were far too difficult to memorise.
From this point the Khalasa Road ran direct to Beersheba and formed a splendid guiding line through the wadis and hills on either side.
A short stay of two days here and the Battalion was moved to bivouacs in the wadis of the Abu Hindi Wadi on the 13th of February, where preparations were made for an attack eastwards over the hills towards the Jericho Plain.
Bivouacs were arranged in the small wadis or fissures in the ground and, of course, movement was not restricted.
Hadramut; the two others run for a long distance through fertile valleys and, like many of the wadis on the seaward side of the range, have perennial streams down to within a few miles of the sea.
Wadis also determine the line of caravan routes across the highlands of the Sahara.
The slopes were swept by machine-gun and rifle fire, and the beds of the wadis were enfiladed.
Owing to the steep banks of many of the wadiswhich intersected the area of operations, the routes passable by wheeled transport were limited, and, in many places, the going was heavy and difficult.
There were three mountains with steep wadis in between, and each company was given a hill which formed an isolated post.
A mile or two took us to the junction of the Wadis Sunt and Imaish, where we were within a few hundred yards of the ledges where we had perched before taking Zeitun Ridge, and there it began to rain in torrents.
The Edomites refused them a passage along the high-road of trade which led northward from the Gulf of Aqaba; skirting Edom accordingly, they marched through a waterless desert to the green wadis of Moab, and there pitched their camp.
Its wadis were coveted by the tribes of the desert; the well-watered valley of the Arnon attracted more powerful foes.
He had occupied the wadis of Mount Seir before the Edomites had entered them, and a part of the later population of the country traced its descent from a mixture of the Bedâwi with the Edomite.
The collection of anecdotes of Anastasius, a monk of Sinai, mentions several hermit settlements which have been located in wadisnear the convent, where ruins of huts and garden walls remain to this day.
The inscriptions in thewadis of southern Sinai were first noted by the lady Etheria who visited the peninsula about the year 450.
The Nabateans have a special interest for Sinai, since the numerous rough rock-inscriptions along the wadisof the south, which long puzzled the learned, are now generally attributed to them.
It was to the men herding these camels that the wadis of southern Sinai owed their inscriptions.
In between they were driven to pasture in the fruitful wadis which lay near the caravan routes.
Most of the inscriptions along the wadis of Sinai are in Aramaic or other Semitic script, a few are in Greek, a few are in Kufic.
Euting recently published over 300 in facsimile and collected similar inscriptions along the wadiswest of Petra between Damascus and Palmyra, and elsewhere.
The introduction of the camel to the wadis of Sinai dealt one more blow at the vegetation of the peninsula.
The moment they were clear of the foothills they galloped into an inferno of machine-gun fire at close quarters from the Germans and Turks occupying wadis and shell-holes all over the plain.
Lower down the first large villages are Henan and Ajlania, near which the wadis 'Amd, Duwan and el 'Ain unite, forming the W.
In fact, the ground dropped abruptly to a plain several miles wide, cut by wadis and studded with low mounds; on the right the Wadi Ghuzze with a narrow stream of water on one side, wended its way across the plain, almost to our lines.
Except in the wadis the plain between Yebnah and Mughar offered no cover and was within easy range of the enemy's guns.
The wadis became roaring, tearing torrents fed by hundreds of tributaries, and men who had sought shelter on the lee side of rocks often found water pouring over them in cascades.
The ground was as steep, but the hillsides were rougher, the wadis narrower, the patches of open flat fewer than in the districts where infantry operated.
Field guns were rushed forward at the gallop over ground broken by shallow wadis and up and down a very uneven stony surface.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wadis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
