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Dust Bowl
[ duhst bohl ]
noun
- a period, throughout the 1930s, when waves of severe drought and dust storms in the North American prairies occurred, having devastating consequences for the residents, livestock, and agriculture there:
When the Dust Bowl began, the Great Depression was already underway鈥攊t was one disaster on top of another.
- the region that suffered from these waves of drought and dust storms, including the entire U.S. Midwest and, in Canada, the southern prairies of Alberta and Saskatchewan:
Our Oklahoma panhandle was smack dab in the center of that heartless Dust Bowl.
- (lowercase) any similar dry region elsewhere:
Where we see the tragic formation of dust bowls in Asia and Africa, overgrazing is believed to be the main culprit.
dust bowl
1noun
- a semiarid area in which the surface soil is exposed to wind erosion and dust storms occur
Dust Bowl
2noun
- the Dust Bowlthe area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
Dust Bowl
- A parched region of the Great Plains , including parts of Oklahoma , Arkansas , and Texas , where a combination of drought and soil erosion created enormous dust storms in the 1930s. The novel The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck , describes the plight of the 鈥淥kies鈥 and 鈥淎rkies鈥 uprooted by the drought and forced to migrate to California .
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Dust Bowl1
Example Sentences
Russell鈥檚 Uz is a desolate, ravaged Dust Bowl town where farmers have lost their crops and residents have perished thanks to extreme weather.
A novel set during the Dust Bowl sends urgent messages on how climate affects community.
Although Pulitzer winner Russell鈥檚 second novel takes place in the Dust Bowl, its messages for the 21st century United States come through loud and clear.
He talked about the Dust Bowl and its reach throughout the Midwest, where we are both from.
Little did Babb know that the copy of her field notes she would willingly give Steinbeck would not only inspire him as he began his third and final attempt at writing his Dust Bowl novel, but would also make the publishing of her own novel impossible.
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