How to Use dust bowl in a Sentence

dust bowl

noun

• They left the dust bowl and moved west.
• By nine, most places without a big bar business are dust bowls.
  — David Remnick, Bon Appetit, 6 June 2018
• This flawless specimen of wealth and style and enters this dust bowl.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Moved to Idaho in 1937 due to the dust bowl and lack of work.
  — courant.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• Loss of inflows meant Owens Lake dried and became a dust bowl in just a few decades.
  — ArcGIS StoryMaps, 10 Oct. 2022
• The mega-droughts that occurred a millinium ago make the 1930s dust bowl look like childs play.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2015
• But the loss of its water turned the once-fertile Owens Valley into a dust bowl.
  — Dale Kasler and Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 13 Feb. 2018
• Think breadlines and grinding poverty in the cities and dust bowls in the agricultural areas.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 26 June 2018
• As a result, much of Maui's west side became a dry dust bowl susceptible to wildfires.
  — John Wogan, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2024
• The drought withered their crops, starved their animals and transformed their modest farm into a howling dust bowl.
  — Declan Walsh Andrea Bruce, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• The tactic worked until winter rains failed to arrive this year, turning fertile areas into dust bowls.
  — Rob Taylor, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
• There's these dust bowls, there's a hurricane that basically wipes out the entire East Coast.
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 19 July 2023
• Sandberg takes this film a little grungier than the rest of the franchise, which matches the 1950s dust bowl setting.
  — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
• Research published in 2020, for example, found that climate change is creating the same kinds of long heat waves that drove the dust bowls of nine decades ago.
  — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Four years of drought, the worst in decades, along with deforestation caused by people burning or cutting down trees to make charcoal or to open up land for farming, have transformed the area into a dust bowl.
  — Reuters, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2022
• Josh Reddick’s throw beat Moncada by several steps, but Moncada flew in head-first, creating a dust bowl at the platw.
  — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• In the world of Interstellar, Earth's future is bleak as a global crop blight and a second dust bowl threaten to render the planet uninhabitable.
  — Robert Anderson, PCMAG, 9 Nov. 2022
• The research is also concerning for Californians, who have seen their state ravaged by record-setting wildfires and drought that turned thousands of acres of farmland into dust bowls.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• There was the time the windshield on our 1995 Chevy Cavalier started flapping like an old cellar door with the approach of a dust bowl tornado.
  — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
• The American dust bowl of the 1930s demonstrated the ruinous consequences of soil degradation.
  — Jo Handelsman, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2021
• Editor’s Note — This is the first of three articles about the perfect storm of fire, dust bowl, and drought conditions across the West in 2026.
  — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 15 Apr. 2026
• But over the last few decades, environmental experts say climate change and drought in the Salton Sea have led to a destination that's been plagued with dust bowls, receding waters and other hazards.
  — Lindsey Griswold, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2023
• George Miller spent 40 years building the Mad Max universe, but holds little fear for technology that can recreate a version of his dystopian dust bowl within seconds of rendering a text prompt.
  — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
• Bancroft has labored to ensure the area is remembered as more than just a dust bowl, goading California to recognize Owens Lake as a historic district with deep cultural significance.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
• Which is why the 71-year-old first lady of the United States is here in this dust bowl swarming with biting black flies, gulping down bottled water after spending 90 minutes completely outdoors in the blazing African heat.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023