dust bowl

Example Sentences

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Sometimes, like in Melbourne, the ball does all sorts for the seamers, sometimes it turns square on a dust bowl.

From BBC

But I held up one of the images from The Other California - 1975, and it was this Okie, a guy that was born during the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma and moved out to California.

From Los Angeles Times

We talked about the dust bowl in the Great Plains, where he’d attended college; the tragic crash of the Hindenburg blimp; and concert vocalist Marian Anderson’s performance before more than seventy-five thousand people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

From Literature

But this is foundational stuff for a filmmaker specializing in American figures, institutions and events — the Dust Bowl, Prohibition, women’s suffrage, baseball, the buffalo, Muhammad Ali, the Central Park Five, Frank Lloyd Wright, the National Parks and Mark Twain.

From Los Angeles Times

The novel tells the story of a family of Oklahoma tenant farmers who lose their land during the Dust Bowl and migrate to California in search of work and stability.

From The Wall Street Journal