dust bowls

plural of dust bowl

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dust bowls
Noun
  • Disparities in Maternal Care OB deserts can affect all pregnant people within that area but some communities are hit hardest.
    Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs, Parents, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The device doesn’t produce a huge amount of water from the bone-dry air — around two-thirds of a cup a day — but the ultimate aim is to supply a household with drinking water even in arid deserts, said Xuanhe Zhao, a mechanical engineering professor at MIT.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Krasheninnikov is located in the Kronotsky Nature Reserve, which said in a statement that there is no threat to any people or infrastructure as the volcano is largely surrounded by wastelands.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • What never stops, though, is the eternal leak of CO2 from the necks of volcanoes poking above the frozen wastes.
    Peter Brannen August 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In addition to the impending shipments of elevated radioactivity wastes from New York, Wayne Disposal, off I-94 near the Willow Run Airport in Wayne County's Van Buren Township, was receiving elevated-radioactivity wastes from another FUSRAP site, a long-shuttered beryllium plant in Luckey, Ohio.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 8 Aug. 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
  • Unlike loofahs or scrubbing nets, which are made of non-recyclable plastic, wooden shower brushes are compostable.
    Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But this tubing mascara took my lashes to the lengths that my fluffier brushes do.
    Elizabeth Denton, StyleCaster, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Dust bowls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dust%20bowls. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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