dust bowls

plural of dust bowl

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dust bowls
Noun
  • In a wind advisory for the Lake Mead National Recreation Area and the northwest deserts, the NWS said south winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour, with gusts of up to 45 mph, were expected.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Some towers in remote deserts or mountainous regions send data through satellites, and anyone within the satellite’s coverage area can potentially intercept those signals.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Where homes, buildings and fields once stood in the southern city of Rafah, there were now craters and barren wastelands.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This quiz invites you to explore the darker corners of sci-fi literature, where monsters lurk not just in shadows, but in laboratories, alien worlds and post-apocalyptic wastelands.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Even a short one wastes time and money as federal employees implement, and then undo, extensive plans — and there’s no indication so far that this shutdown will be short.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Its body recycles urea and other nitrogenous wastes into proteins to stave off muscle loss.
    Gloria Dickie, Outside, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Given the surrounding terrain, largely comprising volcanic barrens and lava fields, the risk of wildfire remains low, and no life-threatening impacts have been identified.
    Isabel van Brugen, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The future of Juventus football walks past, while the cat — nicknamed, with great originality, Juve — brushes against ankles.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This set of seven makeup brushes comes in a leather case with a shiny rose gold finish.
    Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Dust bowls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dust%20bowls. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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