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
- If desertification continues to spread, the dust bowl will not only undermine the economy but also trigger a huge migration eastward.
- Although we have the scientific ability to tackle global problems, it's the lack of political will to do anything before the planet turns into a dust bowl that's the problem.
- Set in the Dust Bowl years (yet slightly futuristic), "Mr. Shivers" lives up to its name - if, that is, you can keep your focus on the novel and ignore the near-Shakespearean prose that overpopulates its pages. Naplesnews.com Stories
- The flavour of the great dust bowl was sugar and gin. Times, Sunday Times
- The Dust Bowl era will return.
- The novel is meant to emphasize the need for cooperative, as opposed to individualistic, solutions to social problems brought about by the mechanization of agriculture and the Dust Bowl drought.
- She paused by the baseball field, now reduced to a dust bowl, and watched a game in progress. COMPULSION
- 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
- Telling people the truth about agricultural subsidies--that they're a racket--takes a fair amount of bravery, as most people still suffer the delusion that they're a kind-hearted attempt to rescue family farms from the Dust Bowl. Ian Fletcher: The Disappointing Economics of Rick Santorum
- 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.