dust bowl
尘土飞扬,沙尘暴,尘埃碗,尘埃落定
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- : 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—it 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.
- : 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.
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Examples
Finally, in a virtually extinct Dust Bowl drawl, he started talking.
It mostly sprang up during the Great Depression because of Dust Bowl refugees heading west.
Judith Baca’s vivid murals grace a freeway underpass and a flood control channel, where they convey vital California stories like those of Dust Bowl migrants, the Zoot Suit Riots, and the first Olympic women’s marathon.
Estee Lauder has not crumbled to dust because the perfect brown face of Joan Smalls represents it.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
Place the thinly sliced shallots in a medium bowl and pour buttermilk over to coat.
Prepare a large bowl with water and ice along with a strainer.
Combine the cold butter and flour in the bowl of a food processor.
In the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.
It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.
Never mind the dust; I've turned it on to make believe we're going tremendously fast.
He laid it upon the floor, and took out a plaster mask, and brushing and blowing off the saw-dust, held it up.
When the smoke and dust cleared away nothing stirred on the whole of that piece of ground.