How to Use dust bowl in a Sentence
dust bowl
noun
- They left the dust bowl and moved west.
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Moved to Idaho in 1937 due to the dust bowl and lack of work.
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courant.com,
4 Sep. 2019
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The mega-droughts that occurred a millinium ago make the 1930s dust bowl look like childs play.
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Keith Kloor,
Discover Magazine,
15 Apr. 2015
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Loss of inflows meant Owens Lake dried and became a dust bowl in just a few decades.
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ArcGIS StoryMaps,
10 Oct. 2022
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By nine, most places without a big bar business are dust bowls.
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David Remnick,
Bon Appetit,
6 June 2018
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But the loss of its water turned the once-fertile Owens Valley into a dust bowl.
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Dale Kasler and Ryan Sabalow,
sacbee,
13 Feb. 2018
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Think breadlines and grinding poverty in the cities and dust bowls in the agricultural areas.
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Michael Taylor,
San Antonio Express-News,
26 June 2018
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But another factor played into making the Front Range turn into a rush hour dust bowl: the recent dry stretch.
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Chris Bianchi,
The Denver Post,
9 Oct. 2019
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There was the time the windshield on our 1995 Chevy Cavalier started flapping like an old cellar door with the approach of a dust bowl tornado.
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Paul Eisenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Dec. 2022
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The drought withered their crops, starved their animals and transformed their modest farm into a howling dust bowl.
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Declan Walsh Andrea Bruce,
New York Times,
21 Nov. 2022
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The American dust bowl of the 1930s demonstrated the ruinous consequences of soil degradation.
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Jo Handelsman,
Scientific American,
14 Mar. 2021
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The tactic worked until winter rains failed to arrive this year, turning fertile areas into dust bowls.
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Rob Taylor,
WSJ,
8 Nov. 2018
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Four years of drought, the worst in decades, along with deforestation caused by people burning or cutting down trees to make charcoal or to open up land for farming, have transformed the area into a dust bowl.
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Reuters,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2022
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Josh Reddick’s throw beat Moncada by several steps, but Moncada flew in head-first, creating a dust bowl at the platw.
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Teddy Greenstein,
chicagotribune.com,
22 Apr. 2018
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In the world of Interstellar, Earth's future is bleak as a global crop blight and a second dust bowl threaten to render the planet uninhabitable.
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Robert Anderson,
PCMAG,
9 Nov. 2022
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Farmers and environmentalists worry that leaving so much land idle could create a dust bowl in the region and leave the valley scarred by eroded and weed-covered lots.
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Jack Lee,
San Francisco Chronicle,
16 Sep. 2022
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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.
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Lindsey Griswold,
ABC News,
18 Apr. 2023
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Which is why the 71-year-old first lady of the United States is here in this dust bowl swarming with biting black flies, gulping down bottled water after spending 90 minutes completely outdoors in the blazing African heat.
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Jada Yuan,
Washington Post,
24 Feb. 2023
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Photo: perry duffin/epa-efe/rex/shutterstock The tactic worked until winter rains failed to arrive this year, turning fertile areas into dust bowls.
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Rob Taylor,
WSJ,
8 Nov. 2018
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Bancroft has labored to ensure the area is remembered as more than just a dust bowl, goading California to recognize Owens Lake as a historic district with deep cultural significance.
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Leia Larsen,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
10 Oct. 2022
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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.
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Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
4 May 2023
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