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 • Dec. 27, 2025
"When marketers and publicists realized that TikTok was their best hope for attention, they swarmed, turning the app into a conventional promotional dust bowl."
From BBC • Aug. 19, 2024
Perhaps irony, like water for the swimming pool, is a resource that dries up seasonally in these parts, leaving only a dust bowl of surly resentment and some tatty deckchairs behind.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023
The drought withered their crops, starved their animals and transformed their modest farm into a howling dust bowl.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2022
Any farmer doing it would turn their land into a dust bowl within twelve years.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
