dry lake
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The DWP has spent $2.5 billion to combat the swirling clouds of powder-fine dust kicked up by fearsome wind gusts on the dry lake bed.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2024
Jessi Combs, whose 522.783 mph is the current woman’s land speed record, crashed and died in 2019 when she decelerated on a dry lake bed in Oregon.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2023
Black Rock City Municipal Airport appears in the desert for 13 days each year around festival time, using two runways on the dry lake bed, and then disappears, according to its website.
From Reuters • Sep. 4, 2023
From its signature red-colored soil to canyons, dead volcanoes and dry lake beds, the Martian landscape has intrigued humans for generations.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2023
Using all his might, he brought the shovel back down onto the dry lake bed.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
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