dust bowls

plural of dust bowl

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dust bowls
Noun
  • Typically, people recover meteorites in geologically unchanging regions, such as deserts or ice fields, where the meteorites stand out against the landscape.
    Adam Lark, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
  • Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between.
    Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between.
    Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
  • Now, the anti-wealth Marxist agenda taking over the Democratic Party is worsening the divide, turning blue-state economies into wastelands and condemning their least mobile residents to poverty.
    Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The liver has many functions including producing bile and various proteins, storage of energy, metabolizing nutrients, and, perhaps most significantly, filtering toxins and wastes from the body.
    Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 7 June 2026
  • Depending on soil temperature and moisture, the number of microorganisms in the soil, and the carbon content of the wastes, decomposition will occur in one month to one year to feed plant root systems.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 24 May 2026
Noun
  • In its place urchin barrens now carpet the seafloor; a spiny, silent landscape stripped of life.
    Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
  • The forests are marked by sparse conifer stands, woodlands, herbaceous vegetation, and unvegetated barrens that dominate the transition to Arctic tundra.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Commoners relied on swamps, fens, forests, and heaths for fuel, gravel, stone, and wood to make tools and to build and repair houses.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Students who want to paint must buy their own brushes and panels, but all oil paint is provided.
    Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
  • During his voyage, Pinkney experienced some harrowing moments, but no brushes with total disaster.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2026
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“Dust bowls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dust%20bowls. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.

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