How To Use Drought In A Sentence

I added a battery-powered electric razor I'd bought for shaving in droughts. WHITE LIES
A couple of weeks after the monarch's announcement, heavy rain began to fall, thus ending the drought.
A small flurry of winners brings hope, only for a minor drought to promote despair. Times, Sunday Times
The fungi also coat tree roots, protecting against microbial pathogens and drought.
Some of these isolated populations are subject to predation, others to starvation, flooding, severe winters or summer drought.

If we happen to be in a drought condition, all fire precautions are doubly necessary.
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Bena and her husband, a condescending, philandering doctor named Ted, arrive in Pueblo, Colo., in the midst of a drought, as well as the Depression. As The Pages Turn
For decades Kalahandi has been synonymous with droughts, famines, starvation and poverty.
My parents have often hired earth-working vehicles, installing three further dams since arriving here in an effort to drought-proof the house's garden, and to allow them to agist neighbours' animals during droughts.
Weipe agricultural union chairman Frans Nel said drought was wiping out the financial resources of farmers who lost millions of rand in winter production because of black frost and a plague of mice. ANC Daily News Briefing
They are preparing against a drought.
Drought is wreaking havoc in the Thanjavur belt of Tamil Nadu.
The drought has caused great harm to the growing of wheat in the province, with more than about 733,000 hectares of wheat land unable to be sown.
For example, warring factions often induce drought and famine through the use of scorched-earth tactics.
On the other hand, a vine with a small and/or unhealthy root system, be it due to shallow soil, drought, root pests such as phylloxera, or diseases such as armillaria root rot, will support only low-vigour growth.
Furthermore, a temporary local heroin drought was created in the borough.
That meant withholding some of the farmers' irrigation water and sending it downriver - at least until the drought broke.
Add to that decades of se vere drought that drove nomads south onto their neighbors 'land, as well as meddling by Libya, America and Chad — which militarized Darfur tribes as Cold War proxies — and by the mid-'80s, the region had ex ploded in civil war, which spi raled into an international con flict with escalating atrocities. Explaining Darfur
But this past year has been an especially punishing one for the country, with a drought over the summer leading to an exceptionally meagre yield of wheat, maize, sunflowers, soybeans and sugar-beet - all key crops.
It provides a good opportunity to end a trophy drought. Times, Sunday Times
Use: Related to the frangipani but more drought tolerant, this small shrub is evergreen. Desert rose, dracaena and pothos: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico
Severe drought has afflicted the countryside.
But, for example, if there were a long-term drought or a permanent change in rainfall patterns macroclimate, the microclimate of the microhabitats would also gradually change. Species vulnerability traits
The worst drought across the Midwest in 17 years is now threatening commercial shipping.
Experts believe that the coming drought will be extensive.
Others have argued that these periods of droughts are not abnormal.
Beng Hee is in the same half as top seed Ramy Ashour of Egypt and faces a tall order to end his title drought on tour having last won at the Malaysian Open in July 2008. Nst online
After a long playoff drought, Blackhawks fans starving for success got, well, nothing.
The port is vital to supply relief to millions of drought victims.
My best guess is that it is a desperate attempt to head off the Superstorms, floods and droughts of global warming.
Severe drought has afflicted the region.
The particular mycorrhizae that associates itself with redwoods also confers drought resistance to redwood roots. Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Remaining Old Growth Redwood Forests
Drought is an environmental factor that produces water deficit or water stress in plants.
There is a year-round drought and all the peasants that we saw on the road were covered in yellow mud on their hands and faces, their hair was standing up like straws and their clothes were dusty.
The trip is made possible as after four years of drought, recent rainfall means crops may now grow.
The county's drought will last for days, said the local water company. It is unknown when water supplies will resume.
This variety of rose is especially hardy and drought-resistant.
In public calamites, when a general drought appears, and cruel wars, or contagious maladies come, we humble ourselves before the power that sent them, and mortify ourselves by abstinence. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
I live in an area that was scorched by drought for several years.
In the early 1980s, there was another severe drought cycle but the adverse impact was less.
The drought belt of Africa has had almost two decades of exceptionally dry weather.
As the effects of the drought were biting deeper, production at Blinman was also slowed down.
Sometimes used for an anabranch, but more often used for one that, in dry season or droughts especially, is cut off at either or both ends from the main stream. Children of the Bush
Pietersen has as much batting talent as Sachin Tendulkar, says it is no wonder the man they call KP has been in a run drought. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Examples: water – droughts and floods, changes in snowpack, river stream flow, fire outlooks, and planning issues (urban, agriculture, health). 2009 December | Serendipity
In summer, the plants will tolerate some dryness but with extreme drought, watering is required.
Severe drought and other natural disasters struck the country in 1997-98, possibly as a result of the effects of El Niño.
The drought has depleted their supply of water.
More carbon dioxide makes plants less susceptible to drought. Times, Sunday Times
Glaciers, permafrost and polar ice caps are melting, and droughts, floods and more extreme storms are occurring more frequently in many parts of the world.
All of Philadelphia is hoping to end that poor town's championship drought.
One of the worst examples was in Ethiopia, where Haile Selassie's failure to deal with a drought led to his fall and the rise of the communist dictatorship of Haile Miriam Mengistu. Opportunities offered by climate change | Rachel Godfrey Wood
With droughts, rust, rabbits, Bathurst burr, locusts, low wheat and wool prices and a depression his parents had to struggle to provide for their large family.
The researcher says, ‘El Nino and Arctic Oscillation share dynamic features and may also account for regional warming and drought in Canada - teleconnections linking regions over the globe.’
Because of the small number of remaining Mississippi gopher frogs, the species is extremely vulnerable to even natural processes such as drought and floods, and to further loss, damage, and fragmentation of its habitat.
A tree-snapping wind storm in May and a worsening drought have dealt more blows, and invasive species such as chinaberry, nandina and ligustrum are choking out native plants. Statesman - AP Sports
AFTER a ten-year drought, farmers along the Murrumbidgee River now face ruin from a devastating flood.
Flood and drought are the work of yin and yang in the subcelestial realm. Empresses and Consorts
It has been a similar story in Canada with blistering heat and drought in central and eastern parts. Times, Sunday Times
Fires continued to burn elsewhere in the West in states plagued by one of the worst droughts of the century.
Drought once again visited the southeast of the country during 1997 and 1998.
Keating and state weather officials said at least 5 inches is needed in the wheat belt to end the drought.
Manchester United's championship drought is over and the fences with the manager have been mended.
Expect to pay more for pecan pie this Thanksgiving thanks to drought in parts of the South and big demand from China.
Stop whining because you've overbuilt in a drought-stricken area for sixty years.
Finally, higher temperatures and drought can shift the timing of budworm reproduction so that natural parasitoid predators are no longer effective in limiting budworm numbers [22]. Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic
KANSAS CITY—Kansas is on track to harvest a below-average wheat crop as a severe drought parches the country's top producer of bread wheat. Drought Caps Kansas Wheat
After a three-year drought, many investors have seen their stocks or mutual funds increase in value.
Mad laughter follows the drought of tears.
It sets the like o 'him, to be bringing a crew of drunken hunters here, when he kens there is but little preparation to sloken his ain drought. The Bride of Lammermoor
After the 1903 drought, cattle diseases such as pleuropneumonia and rinderpest followed behind a disguised increase in tax rates for rural Africans.
Severe drought has compounded food shortages in the region.
Wild bayberry thrives in the sand with almost no maintenance, will grow in full sun or partial shade, is not harmed by salt spray and is drought-resistant.
In gradually substituting steam for stream power in their manufactures, they lessened the impact of drought or flood.
Engineered plants can help improve harvests in limited and marginal lands, for example in saline soils or in drought-prone areas
Another concern is the continuation of drought conditions across much of the south-east of the country.
Previous authors have suggested some oak communities represent edaphic climaxes on poor, droughty soils.
The supply of food has changed much, despite all the recent droughts and floods. Times, Sunday Times
Despite their reputation for drought tolerance C. mixta varieties (or cushaw squash) were believed to be strictly hot desert or humid-tropical varieties, unable to mature in our cool climate. Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
But those short term doomsday scenarios--more active hurricane seasons, droughts etc.--have not materialized, at least not to the point predicted just a short time ago. Evidence of adverse editorial selection by the CRU Email theives
But rain was a very welcome sight in the parched grain belt of southern Australia, after years of drought. Times, Sunday Times
In counties suffering from the drought, pastures and ranges are in short supply and sudan sorghum or forage millet may be good options for late summer use and wheat or triticale may provide some forage later in the fall or early spring.
MORE than 2,000 people have been reported by their neighbours for flouting hosepipe bans amid fears of the worst drought in a century. Times, Sunday Times
The drought has made farmers anxious about the harvest.
After a winter of meager snowfalls, another drought is likely.
Continuous cropping on these soils has meant declining organic matter and tilth, and increased susceptibility to drought and other adverse conditions such as erosion.
This would be a tragedy because the bezoar is a resilient wild species that crosses readily with domestic goats, and it could pass on its genetic inheritance for heat, drought, and cold tolerance: disease resistance; and other survival qualities. 1 Microcattle
When you take into consideration the tiny dimensions of the island, its distance from all the centres of civilization, its isolation, the great calamities which have befallen it from hurricane, drought and pestilence, and the way it has overlived them all, there is every justification for the pride and glory of its inhabitants in their fair and fertile islet. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
It may be necessary to provide water for high-value trees and shrubs during dry periods or droughts to promote vigorous growth.
He said agroforestry could contribute towards alleviating the impact of HIV / AIDS and thereby increasing the well-being of farming households particularly in Southern Africa where droughts were prevalent.
The Tallaght man needs to get his act together and tomorrow night would be the perfect time to end his recent goal drought.
At the bases of many cardons on this bajada, consequently, are the picked-over carcasses of drought-killed chuckwallas. The Song of The Dodo
We worked hard through droughts and downpours and no longer walked down to the far hayfield to dream.
Anne was instrumental in coordinating, with the assistance of the Barwon Group of the Country Women's Association, drought hampers that were dispersed amongst farmers in need.
Agriculture was dependent on the vagaries of the weather and Zimbabwe suffered from some long droughts. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Kudzu is a leguminous annuals, thermophilic heat - resistant, drought - tolerant, adapt mountain grown.
It could fill them with confidence for the run-in and be the catalyst for the Gunners to end their trophy drought. The Sun
These trends are bound to continue into 2001, with more people around the world being displaced by floods, endangered by wild weather and starved by droughts.
Some scientists suspect the process, teleconnection, might help explain the drought gripping parts of the US.
The drought that brings a frown to the face of this elderly farmer is making itself felt far across China. Times, Sunday Times
Second, white all fish populations take a hit in their rapidly shrinking world during a drought, the smaller, omnivorous species may bounce back explosively afterward; the mosquito fish, for example, can breed every three months.
The lakes and wells all dried up during the drought.
To xeriscape means to place all plants with the same water needs together, emphasizing drought-tolerant plants. Globe and Mail
Drought has caused further problems in the agricultural sector, both for domestic consumption and exports.
More carbon dioxide makes plants less susceptible to drought. Times, Sunday Times
After such a dry growing season, crops on heavy and chalk ground appear to be performing the best, while those on light and brashy soils have suffered badly from drought. FWi - All News
Osmotic stresses, such as drought, low-temperature and high salinity, are major factors in hindering tall fescue growth and productivity.
The severe drought has led to a hosepipe ban in eastern England.
Is the West in any position to withstand another oil drought?
Years of drought, along with tree diseases and bugs among the foothills 'pine and chaparral, have turned the area into a "tinderbox," Goodell said. SacBee -- Latest News
Agriculture is mainly pastoral, but recent droughts have decimated cattle herds.
Agricultural production fell by 10.8 percent, largely due to the effects of the country's worst drought in 50 years.
But periods of high heat and drought send such common urban-dwelling species as crows, blue jays and robins out of the city in search of fresh water.
Frank Keating declared a drought emergency and instituted a statewide ban on outdoor burning.
It grows even more vigorously than the jackbean under less harsh conditions (in Yucatan, where droughtiness is always a problem the jackbean does better in years of low rainfall, whereas the velvetbean does better when rain fall is higher than normal, but still scarce). 28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture
Although the aspen is the most widely distributed tree species in North America, the die-off struck mostly in the Southwest, where the drought beginning in 2002 was most severe. NYT > Home Page
Once there was a drought in Israel, and during that time of scarcity of food, God only sent his Prophet Elijah during that time to a Shulamite woman that is, to work a miracle for a non-Jew outside Israel. Archive 2007-01-01
This ecoregion has a mosaic pattern of climatic formations, such as dense drought deciduous lowland woodland, submontane woodland, and evergreen seasonal lowland forest. Lara-Falcón dry forests
The drought could spell disaster for wildlife.
The consultancy is also alarmed by signs that the credit crunch is set to wreak further serious damage through a prolonged lending drought. Times, Sunday Times
The liquidity drought was one of the principal reasons the crisis was quite as bad as it was. Times, Sunday Times
Eggs are drought resistant and lay on the ground, where the larvae scavenge on dead insects.
The Minister warns the drought meeting will not provide instant solutions.
Floods and droughts associated with global climate change could undermine health in other ways as well.
Of longer droughts and bigger floods, and growing hunger and thirst, and things in various ways not being quite like they were. Times, Sunday Times
After that, depending on the region, comes the danger of drought and crop failure.
The area was constantly hit by drought.
fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought
A comparable list of minimum requirements could be drawn up for drought and other environmental stresses.
Four to six weeks before the average date of the last frost in your area, start seeds indoors of drought-tolerant warm-season flowers such as coreopsis, globe amaranth, lion's tail, and rudbeckia.
This year some producers may benefit from using a drought-stressed grain crop for livestock forage.
Geoffroy tries to speak to them, a few words of Ibo, phrases in Yoruba, in pidgin, but they are always silent, not haughty, merely absent, disappearing rapidly in single file along the river, lost to view in the tall grass yellowed by drought. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Prose
At the same time, a drought affected the area, and heliotrope had time to grow and go to seed.
Years of drought, crop failure and migration have meant that land is continually withdrawn from active production.
The drought had worsened their chances of survival.
The lungfish use lungs as accessory breathing organs, and during droughts modern forms can survive for several years in burrows.
Tree rings can tell stories of fire history, seasons, droughts, and rainfall.
Moisture is a limiting factor in the rainshadow of the Rocky Mountains; as a result, drought resistant shortgrass and some mixed-grass prairie dominate the plains vegetation. Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
The continuance of this drought will ruin the harvest.
A small flurry of winners brings hope, only for a minor drought to promote despair. Times, Sunday Times
MORE than 2,000 people have been reported by their neighbours for flouting hosepipe bans amid fears of the worst drought in a century. Times, Sunday Times
The Red River Valley soil is bone dry after three years of drought.
Fifteen districts, all of them lying in western areas of the state have been declared drought hit.
In most people's minds, drought equals famine. Times, Sunday Times
The calamity that most commonly befalls the comune is a drought, or the fear of a drought. Diversions in Sicily
Mozambique's drought is patchy, with some areas enjoying good rainfall or able to use old Portuguese colonial-era irrigation schemes to boost production.
The days of hosepipe bans and drought restrictions almost feel like nostalgia. Times, Sunday Times
farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season
The north remained largely unaffected by the drought.
By 1977 the country was beset by serious drought - a clear sign of cooling. Secrets of the Soil
In fact, tropical storms or hurricanes have ended many droughts in Texas, and other parts of the world.
Thousands of refugees are trapped by war, drought and famine.
Drought-tolerant once established, oleanders tolerate the alkaline, sandy soils in Galveston, as well as the heavier soils here.
In needles from mature subarctic Scots pine, enhanced UV-B radiation levels induced xeromorphic (change in plant anatomy to enhance drought resistance) characteristics, including smaller epidermal area and enhanced development of the cuticle layer [29]. Effects of ultraviolet-B on forest vegetation in the Arctic
An exceptionally hot summer, following a winter drought, has made the resinous pine forests particularly flammable.
But in recent years their numbers have been declining fast as they leave en masse to escape drought and pollution. The Sun
This is the simplest definition of drought, one that at least intuitively we all have held. Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth
Anhydrobiosis is a state of suspended animation certain invertebrate animals enter in response to severe drought.
The drought has not helped matters as animals have abandoned their traditional grazing lands in search of greener pastures.
Especially since, although these areas do have a higher than normal fire danger due to climatory reasons alone and a drought that has gone on now for over ten years, fires in these areas are not at all unusual. U.S. Serial Wildfires: Foreign Trade Agreements And Corporate Profit The Cause?
Elation returned after 27 months' drought when he won his first ranking tournament at the Mercantile Credit in Bournemouth last January.
This is because trees fight greenhouse emissions, pollution and reduce desertification, droughts, floods and storms.
Anhydrobiosis is a state of suspended animation certain invertebrate animals enter in response to severe drought.
Truckloads of rice have been brought in to the areas affected by drought.
If we analyze all these things that we have talked about, including those areas in which we have a crisis such as the oxygen and argon plant that is going to be built in Santiago de Cuba, which is going to open this very year, and all these things that are planned, we could say that the year, even with all the problems droughts, and all disasters, and all the measures that we have had to take, and the low oil prices, and the dollar devaluation and all those things we could say that 1987 is going to be one of the best years of the revolution. 30 JANUARY MINBAS MEETING
Shortages have become endemic to many regions, as record drought and population sprawl sap rivers and aquifers.
The lakes and wells all dried up during the drought.
They have to contend against drought every year.
The long drought dried up all the wells.
The main handicap is uncertain rainfall, with the occurrence at irregular intervals of very serious droughts. Conditions in South Africa
From the shrinking snowpack of Western Washington through the unseasonable fog and heat of California to the drought of Baja, something was up with the climate, and people were rattled.
He ordered to come at His call the infliction of punishment by "fire" on Israel, that is, drought (compare Am 4: 6-11), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Plants chosen for drought tolerance as well as color thrive here, including catmint (Nepeta ‘Blue Wonder’), ceanothus, lychnis, penstemon, purple coneflower, rockrose, rosemary, and star jasmine.
Millions will face starvation next year as a result of the drought.
For three years, their homeland, already ravaged by a decade-long civil war, has suffered a catastrophic drought.
Ancient tree rings from pinyon pines have been used as sensitive "listening posts" to determine climate variability and in particular drought. Dr. Reese Halter: Global Warming, Drought and the Grim Reaper
And in the meantime the drought has broken and the farmers are clamouring for seed so they can get a crop.
Southern Australia suffered continued intense heat and drought, hitting its important agricultural regions particularly hard. Times, Sunday Times
They've all been abandoned by their mothers because of the drought, or have been left orphaned.
What could be wrong with an emergency drought relief bill?
This durability in contact with the ground is offset by the crown's vulnerability to dieback from drought.
Military activity coupled with prolonged drought will undoubtedly have had an adverse effect on its survival. Animals of the World
They are used successfully for planting grapes, tobacco, attar plants and drought-resistant fruiters.
The area has been ravaged by drought/floods/war.
Along drought followed by a wet October drenched in torrential rains and floods, and then the arrival of cold and snow at the end of the month. Times, Sunday Times
The port is vital to supply relief to millions of drought victims.
The drought has spread its tentacles deep inside the jungle.
The Journal also reported that the roof will be planted mostly with sedum, which is a hardy, drought-resistant succulent. Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News
Several southern African countries face famine because crops have failed as a result of drought or flooding or both.
Overall the situation is almost as bad as the drought of 1976 in which farmland was ruined. Times, Sunday Times
During the drought of 1185, Count Raymond of Tripoli, the regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, agreed a truce with Saladin whereby the latter furnished the settlers with all the supplies they needed.
How delicately pink it is, and yet how unfadingly it stands the summer's sun, the hot air, the drought! The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
The meaning whereof is, that in Iuly the sun is in Leo At which tyme the Dogge starre, which is called Syrius or Canicula reigneth, with immoderate heate causing Pestilence, drought, and many diseases. Shepheardes Calendar
This is part of a three-year scheme to relocate over 2 million people from the drought-prone areas to the relatively unpopulated fertile lands in the south and west.
And the tourism drought hits the Midwest less hard than other parts of the country.
A lot of people are going to be sweating out, actually, the Plains the temperatures have really been increasing, I wanted to show you the drought monitor, it's kind of interrelated to the drought conditions. CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2007
It adds a northerly component to our prevailing westerlies: i.e. more nor'westers, bringing drought to the east and floods to the west.
There was no co-relation between drought severity and greenness changes, which is contrary to the idea of drought-induced greening. Archive 2010-03-01
A fifth year of drought is expected to have dramatic effects on the California economy.

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