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Example sentences for: drought

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In periods of drought it is attractive to birds that usually reside at Doñana, and around 50 species have been observed here.
Australia's summer months around the turn of 2002–2003 brought perhaps the worst drought in a century to the populous southeast and the biggest fire season for two decades.
For example, although dengue is most prevalent in the wet season, dengue epidemics have also been associated with drought in some countries.
An Agriculture Department meteorologist said that in some regions "there is a drought that is comparable to the drought of the '30s."
Hollywood's flood of natural disaster movies-- Volcano , Twister , Asteroid , The Flood, etc.--ebbed just in time for the real thing: earthquakes in Turkey and Taiwan, a drought on the East Coast, Hurricane Floyd and its allied floods.