dust bowl in English

noun
1
an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice.
Huge flocks of sheep and goats in the northwest are stripping the land of its protective vegetation, creating a dust bowl on a scale not seen before.

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1. The Dust Bowl era will return.

2. The " dust bowl " covered one hundred countries.

3. In Steinbeck's day, this was part of the American dust bowl.

4. On the other side was another dust bowl identical to the last.

5. Despite the concerns, Iowa is not on the brink of becoming a new Dust Bowl.

6. The Dust Bowl that affected the prairie regions of the United States was one infamous drought.

7. If desertification continues to spread, the dust bowl will not only undermine the economy but also trigger a huge migration eastward.

8. John Steinbeck's tale of Dust Bowl victims travelling west for a better life is a classic look at life during the Great Depression.

9. Bound for Glory brings the Dust Bowl era to authentic life thanks to Haskell Wexler's opulent cinematography and Woody Guthrie's resonant music, capturing the …

10. Fourteen states are suffering from a drought so early and severe that it's already causing comparisons with the dust bowl years of the 1930's.

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12. Now mostly abandoned, Route 66 was the primary route between Chicago and Los Angeles in the mid-twentieth century, a route especially popular with Dust Bowl migrants.

13. The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. By 19 the Los Angeles Aqueduct had drained the 100-square-mile Owens Lake dry, diverted the Owens River and turned much of the Owens Valley into a dust bowl.

17. If we don't act, meanwhile, the big costs would probably come late this century (although some things, like the transformation of the American Southwest into a dust bowl, might come much sooner).

18. When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose.

19. When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose.

20. When there was despair in the Dust Bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose.

21. When tITe were despair in the Dust Bowl and depression through the earth, IT saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose.