NOUN
- a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s
How To Use dust bowl In A Sentence
- He added the dry conditions have also turned some fields into dust bowls, which can blow material onto the leaves of plants and grass the cattle are consuming.
- 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.
- Huge flocks of sheep and goats in the northwest are stripping the land of its protective vegetation, creating a dust bowl on a scale not seen before.
- For example, in response to the 1930s Dust Bowl in the United States, major policy interventions were introduced, including zoning laws for the most fragile areas, repurchases of submarginal private land, cash payments for leaving land fallow, and farm loans tied to approved land practices. Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Desertification Synthesis~ Key Questions on Desertification in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
- The " dust bowl " covered one hundred countries.
- My mouth became a dust bowl, complete with tumbleweed and mini sandstorms, and I actually started to hallucinate about a bottle of Evian.
- If desertification continues to spread, the dust bowl will not only undermine the economy but also trigger a huge migration eastward.
- Daniel Davila, a 23-year-old timber floorer from Camarillo, Calif.--a Los Angeles suburb knee-deep in the Golden State's housing dust bowl--made the 14-hour move across the Pacific two years ago. More U.S. Job-Hunters Try Australia
- The flavour of the great dust bowl was sugar and gin. Times, Sunday Times
