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Drought is an English word with synonyms like dryness or period. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Drought | Droughts | Droughtlander

Drought meaning

  1. A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
  2. A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport.
  3. dryness, aridness, dry heat

Synonyms of Drought

drouth dryness waterlessness xerotes time period period of time period

Related words

Other words often associated with Drought or its synonyms:

status condition wetness play dispassion menstruation sobriety moderation interval menses temperance

Using Drought

  • The main meaning on this page is: A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell. | A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport. | dryness, aridness, dry heat
  • Useful related words include: drouth, dryness, waterlessness, xerotes.
  • In the example corpus, drought often appears in combinations such as: drought and, the drought, of drought.

Context around Drought

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 11 start, 8 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

severe 4× extreme 4× exceptional 4× moderate 2× international 1× global 1× southwest 1× flash 1× upon 1× compare 1×

Often after:

monitor 10× conditions 3× information 2× now 1× resilience 1× atlas 1× rules 1× emergency 1× see 1× events 1×

Sentence patterns with Drought

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

the us drought monitor 2× a moderate drought or abnormally 1× a moderate drought with over 1× and exceptional drought rules the 1× and global drought atlas will 1× applicability of drought indices also 1× as exceptional drought a label 1× awareness of drought around the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

as a key 1× extreme drought is 1× just like drought 1× kansas counties closer 1× meanwhile the launch 1× on thursday new 1×

Common sentence endings:

severe drought conditions 2× us drought monitor 2× 50 year events 1× across different regions 1× and walker county 1× around the world 1×

Words around Drought

Just before it in the word index:

drouet 8 drottningtorget 2 drotos 2 drosten 3 dross 17 drosophila 36

Just after it in the word index:

droughtlander 2 droughts 257 drouhard 2 drouillard 2 drouin 64 drouot 4

Similar in corpus frequency:

certificate 1.693 credited 1.692 visa 1.692 pa 1.691 pledged 1.691 trans 1.691

Corpus analysis for Drought

  • In this selection, "drought" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, severe, extreme, exceptional, monitor, conditions and information stand out and add context to how "drought" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include the us drought monitor and a moderate drought or abnormally. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "drought" sits close to words such as certificate, credited and visa, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with drought

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

More than 99% of Louisiana was in drought, according to the US Drought Monitor. (14 words)

The U-S Drought Monitor says more than a quarter of the state is in exceptional drought. (17 words)

According to the U.S. Drought Monitor report, drought was down 4% from the month of April. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

Kansas counties closer to the Missouri are in are in the Extreme Drought (D-3) state and parts of Missouri just north of Joplin have been rated as being in a moderate drought or abnormally dry for this time of year. (41 words)

B.C. has yet to update it’s drought information portal this year, but the final update from November shows much of northern B.C. in severe drought, and snowpack throughout the province has been lower than normal all winter. (40 words)

According to the latest US Drought Monitor, severe drought now only covers 8% of the state, with just over a third of the state remaining in some level of drought — the lowest amount in nearly three years. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

According to the latest US Drought Monitor, severe drought now only covers 8% of the state, with just over a third of the state remaining in some level of drought — the lowest amount in nearly three years.

The state is no longer considered to be in extreme drought or exceptional drought, the two worst categories, but much of the state is still considered to be experiencing moderate or severe drought conditions.

Meanwhile, the launch of the International Drought Resilience Observatory and Global Drought Atlas will help increase monitoring, prevention and awareness of drought around the world.

In most of California and across the Southwest, drought — including extreme and exceptional drought — rules the landscape, as the U.S. Drought Monitor reports.

The South remains ground zero for flash drought, with extreme drought (D3) noted on the latest U.S. Drought Monitor in 6% of Texas and 4% of Alabama, Georgia, and Kentucky.

When the governor declared the drought emergency, 99 percent of the state was in a moderate drought with over 88 percent of Utah experiencing at least severe drought conditions.

And then I started to wonder if the Mostats were, in fact, truly serious about how angry they are about having a brown lawn during a Level 5 Drought (see: BC Drought Information Portal).

As a key indicator for measuring the variation of dry-wet trend and the change of drought events, the applicability of drought indices also varies across different regions.

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Extreme drought is present in several states across the Midwest, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri, according to the US Drought Monitor.

Just like drought will feed upon drought because if there's no moisture in the soil, or evaporate, you won't get any rain.

Kansas counties closer to the Missouri are in are in the Extreme Drought (D-3) state and parts of Missouri just north of Joplin have been rated as being in a moderate drought or abnormally dry for this time of year.

More than 99% of Louisiana was in drought, according to the US Drought Monitor.

The State government will draw up the first list of drought-hit taluks on Monday after the Cabinet sub-committee on drought-related issues meets.

The U.S. Drought Monitor maps compare drought conditions from May 30 and June 6 (the two latest maps available at the time of writing this article).

The U-S Drought Monitor says more than a quarter of the state is in exceptional drought.

Though Borana drylands have a long history with routinely occurring drought consequences, currently the severity, length, and frequency of drought have been changing.

According to the U.S. Drought Monitor report, drought was down 4% from the month of April.

B.C. has yet to update it’s drought information portal this year, but the final update from November shows much of northern B.C. in severe drought, and snowpack throughout the province has been lower than normal all winter.

On Thursday, new new drought monitor was released and the update highlights a strip of D-2 drought (severe) in a zone from northern Pickens County into Lamar, Fayette and Walker County.

The Canadian Drought Monitor classified the severity as “exceptional drought,” a label reserved for once-in-50-year events.

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Common combinations with drought

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "drought" in a sentence?
An example: "According to the latest US Drought Monitor, severe drought now only covers 8% of the state, with just over a third of the state remaining in some level of drought — the lowest amount in nearly three years." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "drought" from authentic English texts.
What does "drought" mean?
Drought means: A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
What are synonyms of "drought"?
Common synonyms of "drought" include: drouth, dryness, waterlessness, xerotes, time period, period of time, period.
How many example sentences with "drought" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "drought", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.