dust bowl
nounDefinition of dust bowl
: a region that suffers from prolonged droughts and dust storms
Examples of dust bowl in a Sentence
They left the dust bowl and moved west.
Recent Examples on the Web
Photo: perry duffin/epa-efe/rex/shutterstock The tactic worked until winter rains failed to arrive this year, turning fertile areas into dust bowls. — Rob Taylor, WSJ, "Drought Tests Australia’s Model Water Market," 8 Nov. 2018 By nine, most places without a big bar business are dust bowls. — David Remnick, Bon Appetit, "The Only Restaurant on the Upper West Side That Hasn’t Been Bettered Anywhere on Earth," 6 June 2018 Think breadlines and grinding poverty in the cities and dust bowls in the agricultural areas. — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, "Think the U.S. is at odds? Consider Greece.," 26 June 2018 Josh Reddick’s throw beat Moncada by several steps, but Moncada flew in head-first, creating a dust bowl at the platw. — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, "White Sox keep it below double digits but lose again to Astros, 7-1," 22 Apr. 2018 But the loss of its water turned the once-fertile Owens Valley into a dust bowl. — Dale Kasler And Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, "A ‘water grab’? Southern California water agency eyes possible control of Delta tunnels project," 13 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dust bowl.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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