drouth
- a variation of drought.
Example Sentences
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When drouth occurs in the Mississippi Valley we have proposed to make another appropriation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spring broke tardily everywhere in the U. S. Summer was generally satisfactory, in spite of brief searings of drouth in the central plains and musty weather in the south.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a drouth occurred in the Volga in Russia we appropriated money to take care of those there in distress.
From Time Magazine Archive
The people . . . have been visited by a drouth which has been as devastating, as cruel and as remorseless as a flood or an earthquake.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bad drouth that Bud Searcy predicted had come.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
