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dust bowl
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dust Bowl is the ninth studio album by blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa . It was released worldwide on March 22, 2011. The cover art is based on a famous 1936 photograph by Arthur Rothstein .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also dustbowl , "drought-plagued region of the U.S. Midwest," first recorded 1936.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ If desertification continues to spread, the dust bowl will not only undermine the economy but also trigger a huge migration eastward. ▪ On the other side was another dust bowl identical to the last.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s
Usage examples of dust bowl.
There was not an elephant to be seen across this great dust bowl, not an antelope or giraffe.
In the province around Maike, for instance, which had been a dust bowl during Gentle's first pilgrimage, they found fields green with the first crop in six seasons, courtesy of a woman who'd sniffed out the course of an underground river and coaxed it to the surface with sways and supplications.
First it was wheat and sorghum, then the dust bowl, and after that they replanted in feed corn and now gasohol corn.
On the just tolerable edge of the hot winds, it was a dust bowl where no rain ever fell.
If the President had said the wrong thing, there would have been sixty thousand by two in the afternoon and maybe six hundred thousand by the time the wave hit New York - the biggest wave of DPs since the Dust Bowl.