Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dust bowls
Noun
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Parks turned into deserts, great skyscrapers leveled by blows from the tails of the monsters, and the entire population threatened in the panic and pestilence that followed the invasion.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026 -
Satellite communication enables users to stay connected in remote areas such as mountains, deserts, offshore locations, and disaster zones.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
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Thirty minutes south, on the Tennessee side of the border, Elon Musk has already begun transforming the industrial wastelands of South Memphis.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
1 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This digital commute creates heat and wastes power.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Mar. 2026
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Other medications act like poison, killing kidney tubule cells, which help to filter wastes and reabsorb nutrients.—
Jyoti Madhusoodanan,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2026
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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
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The population surge caused widespread urchin barrens across the islands.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Dec. 2025
Noun
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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
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Cleaning these areas typically requires a mix of tools, including manual skimmers, brushes, and robotic cleaners.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Mar. 2026
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What Nexgrill brushes are being recalled?—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2026
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