dust bowls

Definition of dust bowlsnext
plural of dust bowl

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dust bowls
Noun
  • An alert will go into effect for the deserts, mountains and coast on Tuesday.
    Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • MindTravel has performed in different places around the world, such as Antarctica and deserts in the Middle East.
    Alyson Rodriguez, Dallas Morning News, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Thirty minutes south, on the Tennessee side of the border, Elon Musk has already begun transforming the industrial wastelands of South Memphis.
    MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 1 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This digital commute creates heat and wastes power.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Other medications act like poison, killing kidney tubule cells, which help to filter wastes and reabsorb nutrients.
    Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • The population surge caused widespread urchin barrens across the islands.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
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
  • There’s also a zippered top section for tools, like brushes, tweezers, and nail files.
    Sarah Han, Allure, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Invasive brushes kick out native grasses that make valuable forage for cattle.
    Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
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“Dust bowls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dust%20bowls. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.

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