Below you will find example sentences with "dust bowl". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Dust Bowl in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: dust
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "dust bowl" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a kansas dust bowl a sandy, a new dust bowl some meteorologists, states, depression and city stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with super bowl, bowl game, pro bowl, dust storms, dust devil and dust particles, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with dust bowl
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
She spent her early years watching Dust Bowl storms scour the prairie. (12 words)
It will be made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads". (13 words)
Sometimes, there is a dust storm; an example of one is the Dust Bowl. (14 words)
Its history is woven with the plight of Dust Bowl refugees who came to work in the fields and brought their conservative, deeply religious views with them, and it is the famed birthplace of the so-called Bakersfield sound and Merle Haggard. (42 words)
But even as Dust Bowl migration, the World War II arms industry and a vast movement of Black Americans escaping Jim Crow segregation transformed the city, the newspaper remained nearly entirely white in its staff, its readership and its outlook. (40 words)
Allitt p 211, paraphrasing William Cronin's evaluation of Mathew Paul Bonnifield, Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt and Depression(1979) Influence on the arts and culture Florence Owens Thompson seen in the photo Destitute Pea Pickers in California. (37 words)
Could this be the beginning of a “New Dust Bowl” some meteorologists have predicted will occur across a portion of the United States this year or next? (27 words)
Example sentences (20)
Dust Bowl Evidence suggests the jet stream was at least partly responsible for the widespread drought conditions during the 1930s Dust Bowl in the Midwest United States.
Thompson felt it gave her the perception as a Dust Bowl "Okie." citation The work of independent artists was also influenced by the crises of the Dust Bowl and the Depression.
Sometimes, there is a dust storm; an example of one is the Dust Bowl.
Compared with the Emerald City behind us, the underworld across the Styx is a Kansas dust bowl, a sandy mess that looks as if it could swallow us.
Could this be the beginning of a “New Dust Bowl” some meteorologists have predicted will occur across a portion of the United States this year or next?
It’s almost unfathomable that this tiny restaurant survived the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, and nearly 100 years of other assorted forms of chaos, but Robert’s is still kicking.
The history that they unspooled was written in places like the Dust Bowl or in the Jim Crow South.
But even as Dust Bowl migration, the World War II arms industry and a vast movement of Black Americans escaping Jim Crow segregation transformed the city, the newspaper remained nearly entirely white in its staff, its readership and its outlook.
Its history is woven with the plight of Dust Bowl refugees who came to work in the fields and brought their conservative, deeply religious views with them, and it is the famed birthplace of the so-called Bakersfield sound and Merle Haggard.
She spent her early years watching Dust Bowl storms scour the prairie.
The Dust Bowl era of the 1930s remains the peak period for extreme heat.
The morning I went to pick up my electric car, I was cold, tired of walking, and carrying so much crap I looked like someone relocating during the Dust Bowl.
A lack of rainfall, extremely high temperatures and inappropriate cultivation techniques produced what was known as the Dust Bowl in South Dakota and several other plains states.
Allitt p 211, paraphrasing William Cronin's evaluation of Mathew Paul Bonnifield, Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt and Depression(1979) Influence on the arts and culture Florence Owens Thompson seen in the photo Destitute Pea Pickers in California.
Although drought is rare, it has occasionally caused major disruption, such as during the Dust Bowl (1931–1942).
American exodus: The dust bowl migration and Okie culture in California (Oxford University Press, 1989) * Lassieur, Allison.
During the Dust Bowl, the jet stream weakened and changed course traveling farther south than normal.
His story about Black Sunday marked the first appearance of the term Dust Bowl; it was coined by Edward Stanley, Kansas City news editor of the Associated Press, while rewriting Geiger's news story.
Indeed, he came close to writing off the region with his comment that the prairie dust bowl was "part of the U.S. desert area.
It will be made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads".