How to Use drought in a Sentence
drought
noun- The drought caused serious damage to crops.
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The drought gripping the West is the most severe in the last 1,200 years.
— Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2022 -
Right now 50% of the region’s counties are in a D2 drought.
— Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2023 -
If the drought persists, who’s going to feel it the most?
— Clio Chang, Curbed, 5 Nov. 2024 -
The two-plus decades drought has rippled through academia.
— Matt Laslo, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023 -
Olivia Reeves could break the gold-medal drought in weightlifting.
— Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 25 July 2024 -
More than 97% of the state remains in some level of drought.
— Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022 -
Years of drought have left parts of the state uniquely prone to rain damage.
— Jessica Roy, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023 -
The last drought warning in New York City was issued in 2002.
— Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2024 -
These tips will help tell if your lawn is too dry to mow, and how to best care for it through drought.
— Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 July 2024 -
The state of New Jersey issued a drought warning for the first time since 2016.
— Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2024 -
The Crusaders went on 8-minute field goal drought in first half but trailed by only 5 at the break.
— Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2023 -
As of Thursday’s update, extreme drought had spread across a third of the state.
— Melissa Alonso, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023 -
While not the best feeling, those droughts are still very common.
— Women's Health, 8 May 2023 -
Forests are overgrown, and rising heat and drought add to the dangers.
— Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 28 May 2024 -
This often brings drought to the southern U.S. and heavy rains in the northwest and Canada.
— Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024 -
The cause is a deeply weird drought that is currently gripping much of New York.
— M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024 -
At the same time, UC went on a scoring drought of nearly three minutes.
— Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 2 Feb. 2023 -
Parts of the country have also been dealing with drought.
— Andrea Navarro / Bloomberg, TIME, 10 May 2024 -
Eichel just won the Cup last season, while the Sabres’ league-long playoff drought marches on.
— Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 1 June 2024 -
The persistent drought in the West raised doubts over whether there would ever be much surplus for the MWD to store.
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024 -
But snapping a three-year playoff drought will be the biggest test.
— Fox News Staff, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024 -
Fears of a content drought due to the strikes that shut down the film industry were unfounded.
— Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024 -
Over the past decade, the country has faced increasing droughts, wildfires, and heat waves.
— Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023 -
The drought watch, which began on Nov. 2, remains in effect.
— Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 17 Dec. 2024 -
Although the state is not in a drought, there’s no chance of rain until the weekend in the part of New Jersey where the fire is burning.
— Wayne Parry, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2023 -
In the longer view, though, the state’s water problems have come just as often from deluge as from drought.
— Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023 -
The 39-year championship lull is the seventh-longest active drought in the sport.
— Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023 -
The Jets have the longest playoff drought in pro sports (12 years), but Rodgers isn’t afraid to openly talk about a Super Bowl.
— Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023 -
Many experts say given that shift, the state needs to do more to capture water in the wet years to reduce the severity of shortages during droughts.
— Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2025
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