Sample Sentences forDust Bowl (editor-reviewed)
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Her great-grandmother kept a diary describing the choking dust storms of the Dust Bowl and the sadness of abandoning the family farm.Dust Bowl = 1930s Great Plains drought and dust storms that ruined farms and forced many families to leave
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After years of drought and overgrazing, the once-green valley was turning into a dust bowl, with dry winds carrying away what little topsoil remained.Dust Bowl = a region hit by repeated, destructive dust storms
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Her family moved from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bowl.Dust Bowl = 1930s Great Plains drought and dust storms that ruined farms and forced many families to leave
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Any farmer doing it would turn their land into a dust bowl within twelve years.† (source)
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My father, Don Bell, came to California during the Dust Bowl from the Midwest and, ironically, worked for the same company farm where my mother was born.† (source)
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Something about this woman, her small eyes and straight mouth, brought to mind the photography of Dorothea Lange—those sun-scarred faces of the Dust Bowl.† (source)
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He dropped a trickle of sand onto the floor and chewed me out for living in a dust bowl!† (source)
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The Grapes of Wrath, the classic novel about the Dust Bowl and the migration of Oklahoma farmers to California, ends with death and a glimmer of renewed life.† (source)
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Compared to the dust bowl at Indian Creek Elementary, Armistead Field was Eden: A thick blanket of soft green grass covered the playing surface and itched their backs when they splayed out for sit-ups and stretches.† (source)
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It's either this fascinating show on the beginning of World War One, or something on A&E about the Dust Bowl.† (source)
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Capable of solving all irrigation problems of dust bowl farmers.† (source)
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Right here in this remote dust bowl was the root of it all, the homeland of bin Laden's fighters, the place where they still plot and scheme to smash the United States.† (source)
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