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dust storm

or dust·storm

[ duhst stawrm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Meteorology.

an occurrence of strong winds permeating the air with fine particles of dust over an extensive area of normally arable land during a period of drought:
It was a time of danger and despair on the prairie, with one dust storm after another.

dust storm

First recorded in 1875–80

The PUMAs were sort of lost in the pixie dust storm of the Obama election.

"A dust-storm, probably," replied the colonel, as the weather had been dry and parching hot for several weeks past.

A dust-storm was raging, and we had some difficulty in finding our way through the network of trenches.

It had been blowing a dust-storm all day, and on that account I hardly expected Gilmour, but now there was no doubt.

All that night a dust storm raged, succeeded next morning by torrential rain.

It was only the other day, in a dust-storm away back near the Darling, as bad a one as ever I was out in.

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