dustbowl

Definition

An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry.

Etymology

From dust + bowl.

Example Sentences

• "Concepts like reform, sanctions or KwaNatal indabas have little meaning in this dustbowl, which is host to more than a million people relocated from "white" farms and "black spots" in Natal, apart from the hundreds of thousands who lived there before the removals started here in the Sixties."
• "The moment they were unleashed the dogs reached the Hindu graveyard in quick time, and then reached the abandoned hockey playground, now a dustbowl, and from there they ran straight to Pandi's thatched hut and circled it twice."
• "Taking up space in the dustbowl of his bedroom was a Marshall JCM 800 bass amplifier."