Sentence examples for drought were from inspiring English sources

Crops, already suffering from a summer drought, were damaged further.

The wheat fields, though parched by drought, were still terraced like a stepladder up the slopes.

Pleas for rain during spells of drought were the most common reason for fasting.

While that drought saw intervening years of normal rainfall, the years of the turn-of-the-century drought were consecutive.

Here at the Ozaukee County Fair on a recent afternoon, the crowds were large and upbeat, but the reminders of drought were all around.

"As floods and drought were a necessary consequence of the fabric of the physical world, predators and parasites, dysfunctions and diseases were a consequence of the evolution of life," he writes.

Joyce emphasised even if the drought were to start to break tomorrow – meaning a long period of good rainfall – it would still be at least six months before farmers started to see any money.

One hypothesis for the Pima's plight is that after generations of living in the desert the only Pima who survived famine and drought were those highly adept at storing fat in times of plenty.

Moreover, higher capacities to recover from drought were revealed.

Effects of drought were also observed on carotenoid content.

Overall genotypes, yield responses to terminal drought were not correlated with root dry weight and % RLD.