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Examples of dust bowl in a Sentence
They left the dust bowl and moved west.
Recent Examples on the Web
Perhaps irony, like water for the swimming pool, is a resource that dries up seasonally in these parts, leaving only a dust bowl of surly resentment and some tatty deckchairs behind.
—Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
The research is also concerning for Californians, who have seen their state ravaged by record-setting wildfires and drought that turned thousands of acres of farmland into dust bowls.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
He was born in the dust bowl town of Dodge City, Kan., one year into the Great Depression in 1930.
—Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
There's these dust bowls, there's a hurricane that basically wipes out the entire East Coast.
—Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 19 July 2023
Research published in 2020, for example, found that climate change is creating the same kinds of long heat waves that drove the dust bowls of nine decades ago.
—Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 5 May 2023
Leopold’s account of the dying wolf went on to describe the calamitous consequences of exterminating the entire species: mountains denuded of every edible tree and bush by proliferating deer, rangeland turned into dust bowls by overgrazing cattle.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
Horrific 'dust bowl' Evan Anderson, 25, who was returning home to St. Louis from Chicago, said a semitruck turned before striking his vehicle, sparing him from even more damage.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
But over the last few decades, environmental experts say climate change and drought in the Salton Sea have led to a destination that's been plagued with dust bowls, receding waters and other hazards.
—Lindsey Griswold, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1935, in the meaning defined above
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“Dust bowl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dust%20bowl. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
Kids Definition
dust bowl
noun
: a region that suffers from long droughts and dust storms
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