dust bowls

plural of dust bowl

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dust bowls
Noun
  • Across oceans, forests, and deserts, animals regularly interact with members of other species in ways that benefit both sides.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026
  • Until that changes, maternity care deserts will continue to expand — and the distance between patients and care will continue to grow.
    Jocelyn Mitchell-Williams, STAT, 19 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
  • Every inaccurate retrieval wastes valuable inference cycles.
    Chhandomay Mandal, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • 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
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
  • One zippered side pocket is great for organizing makeup and brushes, and the other one has a water-resistant sleeve to stash wet items.
    Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
  • This includes wool and metal brushes.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
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“Dust bowls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dust%20bowls. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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