‘Many streams in the world's arid and semiarid regions run only intermittently and empty into broad, undrained basins known as playas, where they deposit their sediment and dissolved minerals.’
‘Where woods existed near undrained marsh or bog, a traveller's difficulties were enhanced.’
‘There is no air in a peat bog and, therefore, undrained peat is made up of 90% water.’
‘They lost the battle and now it's all farm land apart from a couple of places still undrained.’
‘It is also not in dispute that within limits its progress can be modified by human intervention, for example by drainage; the maximum slope sustainable in fully drained soil can be up to twice that in the same soil undrained.’
‘What enticed the Kildare resident to the Midland region of Ireland was the island's biggest waterway, the largest undrained river in Europe, and a place which he holds dear to his heart.’
‘That both she and her murderer were stranded in a poverty-stricken, undrained marshland infested with malaria served only as an example of how free will could triumph over the environment.’
‘Stir in undrained pineapple, orange peel and orange juice.’
‘Usually the village was a line of unpainted wooden huts along each side of a main street that was unpaved and undrained.’
‘Although testing under drained conditions is recommended, testing under undrained conditions, without pore pressure measurement, is also permitted.’
‘Bardon, who later described the settlement as ‘an unsewered, undrained, garbage-strewn death camp in all but name,’ won the respect of the older men and encouraged them to paint their ancestral stories.’
‘The increase of pore pressure due to cyclic loadings under undrained conditions causes the effective confining pressure and the shear strength of the soil to decrease.’
‘Stir in undrained tomatoes, beef broth, and enchilada sauce.’
‘Ridges may allow earlier planting on undrained fields; however, they are not a complete substitute for tile.’
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