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dust bowl
Word definitions for dust bowl in dictionaries
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
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms during the 1930s Depression Era. Dust Bowl may also refer to: Dust Bowl (album) , by Joe Bonamassa The Dust Bowl (film) , a 2012 PBS documentary directed by Ken Burns "Dust Bowl", a short story from Issue ...
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.
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.