dry wash

noun

Western US

: wash sense 1d

Examples of dry wash in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Assume anything that can flood will flood, and avoid camping in dry washes or arroyos. —Wes Siler, Outside Online, 27 Mar. 2025

Avondale Police responded at around 8:42 a.m. to a dry wash area just west of North Copenhagen Drive and West Orange Blossom Lane in Avondale where a landscape crew reported finding the dead woman's body. —Kerria Weaver, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2024

Avondale police are investigating whether a woman found dead by landscapers in a dry wash Monday morning is an elderly woman who had been reported missing three days prior. —Kerria Weaver, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2024

Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly, with the runoff traveling northward through Coyote Wash and into Buckskin Wash. Life-threatening flash flooding of low-water crossings, creeks, normally dry washes and roads is possible. —Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2024

Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly, especially along the normally dry washes that feed into the Aguirre and Sil Nakya Washes. —Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 24 July 2024

Life-threatening flash flooding of low-water crossings, creeks, normally dry washes and roads is possible. —Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2024

Sleeping in dry washes and dry riverbeds, especially in an area that can have flash floods, can easily put you in the direct path of a rush of water if a storm hits in the middle of the night. —Diana Helmuth, Outdoor Life, 29 Nov. 2023

Since soils are already saturated, any heavy rain could bring flash flooding to slot canyons, normally dry washes and areas near recent burn scars, the weather service said. —Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1872, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dry wash

• backwash
• downwash
• mouthwash
• outwash
• panache
• whitewash
• bosh
• frosh
• gosh
• josh
• posh
• quash