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It depends on the context in which it is used. 'Dry wash' can be a grammatically correct phrase, but it may not necessarily be the most appropriate or commonly used in a specific sentence. It could refer to a method of washing clothes without using water (such as dry cleaning), or it could refer to a type of terrain or landscape that is dry and lacking in water sources. Example: "I don't have time to do laundry today, so I'll just take my clothes to the dry wash." (This sentence is referring to a laundry service that uses a dry cleaning method.) Example: "The hikers had to be careful on the dry washes as there was no water available for miles." (This sentence is referring to a type of terrain that is dry and lacks water sources.).
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dry wash
noun
A dry river bed
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Arroyo, also called Wadi, Wash, Dry Wash, orCoulee, Arabic Wādī, French Oued, a dry channel lying in a semiarid or desert area and subject to flash flooding during seasonal or irregular rainstorms.
Arroyo and (dry) wash connote ephemeral streams or their resultant channels.
As you descend, so does the Morongo stream, until it has vanished beneath the broadening dry wash.
One, a mile-long hike up a dry wash, would be the hardest to find, he said, but worth it; the others were easier to find.
When I got to the top of a little dry wash, I could see all the way back out the canyon to the valley and the mountains beyond.
Lower Las Vegas Wash was a dry wash characterized by infrequent flood deposition when Las Vegas, Nevada was established in 1905.
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Should they be wet or dry, washed or unwashed?
Plus, its mildness is a good introduction to the joys of dry washing.
Where aridity has dominated, they include pediments, pans, dune complexes, dry washes, alluvial veneers, bajadas, and fans.
In purification step, there are two basic methods as wet and dry washing.
We hike through the brush and across the dry washes.
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