What is "droughts"

Usage examples of "droughts".

Let the Droughts and the Drummonds and the Beeswaxes quarrel among themselves or with their colleagues.

And the Beeswaxes, and the Robys, and the Droughts, and the Pountneys, and the Lopezes, have all passed over the scene.

He could not throw himself into cordial relations with the Sir Orlando Droughts, or even the Mr Monks.

Which turned out to be quite bearable, for the droughts which plagued other lands supplying grain to Italy were usually out of step with any droughts in Cyrenaica.

In some ancient cultures, they sang it to children during famines or droughts, anytime the tribe had outgrown its land.