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dry spell

noun

First recorded in 1885–90

California, similarly, will take a long time to emerge from this terrible dry spell.

Malcolm Jones goes to the Oklahoma State Fair with a farming family who tell him how they get through the dry spell.

It was an ideal camping place in a dry spell, but not any too desirable in times of high water.

We've had such a long dry spell, but now we've had rain, a real soaker.

Then, when that broke, we got heavy rains and hailstorms and floods, and that destroyed what got through the dry spell.

Don't begin to water your plants in your garden in a dry season unless you can keep on doing so as long as the dry spell lasts.

It looks as if it has set in for a long dry spell; the country 'll be so we kin git around in it without trouble.

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