Sentence examples for drought setting from inspiring English sources

But the pussyhats are why the Weinstein story was a lit match dropped in a drought, setting off the #MeToo wildfire.

Imagine a centuries-long, Sahara-hot drought setting upon the West Coast and withering crops (and Californians).

When drought set in, a decade ago, Urmia's water level dropped precipitously.

The clan leaders from the associated grazing (ulooto) would, as part of their strategy for coping with drought, set aside grazing lands for periods of scarcity.

But then an odd drought set in, and Woods hasn't won at Augusta National since 2005, largely because of putting.

Record temperatures, high winds and forests dried by years of drought set off infernos that swept a vast area of Victoria state, killing more than 170 people and destroying thousands of homes.

Then a prolonged regional drought set in and withered the pasturelands.

"I lost everything," said one of the recent arrivals in Labisigale, who recalled that she and her husband owned 100 cattle before the long drought set in.

You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we'll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking?

In ground that was baked dry but is now soaked deep, eggs will hatch, seeds will germinate and hidden species will reveal themselves and make the most of this change in their luck before the next drought sets in.

According to them: 'Before drought sets in animals are restless in the boma [enclosure], neither sleeping nor sitting.