How to use drought in a sentence

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• The envoy invoked the King of Kings's magnanimity to reduce his province's tribute after another drought.From the entry invoke
• Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought.From the entry flee
• Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.From the entry wasteland
• A drought hinders the growth of plants.From the entry hinder
• A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.From the entry chine
• He bemoaned the drought but went on watering his lawn.From the entry bemoan
• Falling prices and drought plagued the cattle industry.From the entry plague
• These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.From the entry tolerant
• When their main crop failed because of drought, they had no choice but to tough it out: they lived in poverty that winter.From the entry tough out
• We are in a drought of famous influencers, and it may be here to stay.2024 June 26, Stephanie McNeal, “Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To”, in Glamour. From the entry break through
• Triops and fairy shrimp are small crustaceans that can survive years lying dormant in drought conditions.2023 September 5, Amelia Neath, “Three-eyed ‘dinosaur shrimp’ are waking up in the desert after Burning Man washout”, in The Independent. From the entry fairy shrimp
• Today, the world is seeing record-shattering storms in California and catastrophic drought in places like East Africa.2023 March 20, Brad Plumer, “Climate Change Is Speeding Toward Catastrophe. The Next Decade Is Crucial, U.N. Panel Says.”, in The New York…. From the entry crippling
• Flash drought, characterized by unusually rapid drying, can have substantial impact on many socioeconomic sectors, particularly agriculture.2023 May 25, Jordan I. Christian, Elinor R. Martin, Jeffrey B. Basara, Jason C. Furtado, Jason A. Otkin, “Global projections of flash…. From the entry flash drought
• However, potential changes to flash drought risk in a warming climate remain unknown.2023 May 25, Jordan I. Christian, Elinor R. Martin, Jeffrey B. Basara, Jason C. Furtado, Jason A. Otkin, “Global projections of flash…. From the entry flash drought
• Some programs use drought stress to cause budset and harden the crop in preparation for winter.2011, R. Parish, C. M. Johnson, G. Montgomery, Regenerating British Columbia's Forests, →ISBN, page 232. From the entry budset
• Winter or summer, the guelta never went away, even in a drought.2001, David Ball, Empires of Sand: A Novel, page 376. From the entry guelta
• The U.N.I.C.E.F. launched some emergency campaigns like mass feeding programmes, especially during droughts and floods.1996, Usha Sud, United Nations and India: Saga of Cooperation, Vikas Publishing House, page 92. From the entry U.N.I.C.E.F.
• The plant is drought tolerant and winter hardy, but is less tolerant of alkali soils.1989, Better Roads, volume 59, page 34. From the entry sideoats
• They have been killing Jews in the miombo ever since the drought began.1979, Clive Sinclair, Hearts of Gold, Penguin, published 1983, page 64. From the entry miombo
• The drought has raised pluperfect heck with fishing more ways than one.1952, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Wildlife in North Carolina - Volumes 16-19. From the entry pluperfect
• Oh, the potato is a lordly fruit; drought or downpour, it grows and grows all the same.1917, Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil, Book 1, Ch.4, at p.34. From the entry potato
• And now the drought is broken, let's be joyful in our gains.1915, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Isaac Kaufman Funk, William Seaver Woods, The Literary Digest - Volume 51, page 33. From the entry kyoodle
• Torn between the two extremities of droughts and floods, the village welcomed the ice stupa as the savior.2023, Eklas Hossain, “Environmental Concerns Arising from Human Energy Consumption”, in The Sun, Energy, and Climate Change, Springer…. From the entry ice stupa
• In a hot three-week drought that had begin in July he could have saved it, despite the hosepipe ban.2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 7. From the entry hosepipe
• Banabans have historically been able to survive droughts due to the natural ability of the caves to capture and store water.2021 June 8, Joshua Mcdonald, “The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba”, in The Guardian. From the entry Banaban
• These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters.2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native…. From the entry english
• I talked to a father in South Africa who had to give up cloth diapers because of a drought.2019 June 27, Anna Momigliano, “What I wish they'd told me before I started using cloth diapers”, in The Washington Post. From the entry cloth diaper
• The new paper analyzed the drought and heat that killed millions of aspens in Colorado and nearby states a decade ago.2015 March 30, Justin Gillis, “Climate Change Threatens to Kill Off More Aspen Forests by 2050s, Scientists Say”, in The New York Times…. From the entry 2050s
• Worldwide, foliage deciduousness in angiosperms is believed to have arisen in tropical species as a response to periodic drought.2010, Geoff Williams, Paul Adam, The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests, page 59. From the entry deciduousness
• He had wanted to produce a wheat that was more suited to Australian conditions and was drought- and disease-resistant.2008, Primary Australian History: Book F, R.I.C. Publications, page 43. From the entry produce
• Zhenba County in Shaanxi Province once had a forest cover rate of 60 percent, and floods, droughts and hail were rare.1985, “Rural Economic Policy in the New Period”, in Wang Huimin, transl., edited by Luo Hanxian (罗涵先), 中国农村的经济变革 [Economic Changes in…. From the entry Zhenba
• Farmers may be "asset rich" but in times of drought and falling commodity prices they are "income poor".1983 April 6, The Tribune, Sydney, page 8, column 4. From the entry income-poor
• Drought stress causes yield reductions and sometimes total crop failures in rainfed rice areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.1982, International Rice Research Institute, Drought Resistance in Crops with Emphasis on Rice. From the entry rice
• Soldiers and civilians in Chiehhsiu County, Shansi, have launched an upsurge of fighting drought and carrying out spring sowing.1971 May 18 [1971 May 12], “Shansi Spring Farming”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 96, Foreign Broadcast Information…. From the entry Chiehhsiu
• Kafir is confined practically to the Southwestern States where, owing to its drought resistant character, it has become an important crop.1918, Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, page 568. From the entry kafir

Meaning of drought

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

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Questions about drought in a sentence

How do you use drought in a sentence?

Drought is used as a noun. For example: “His village had faced a drought twice.”

What is a short sentence with drought?

“A drought hinders the growth of plants.”

What does drought mean?

Drought means a period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.