Sentence examples for drouth from inspiring English sources

Drought, also spelled drouth, lack or insufficiency of rain for an extended period that causes a considerable hydrologic (water) imbalance and, consequently, water shortages, crop damage, streamflow reduction, and depletion of groundwater and soil moisture.

Last night a rain broke up the summer's drouth.

Pouring the coffee as he speeds past, William Stafford sees "Three Indians in the scouring drouth /huddle at a grave scooped in the gravel".

"Rain on Roke may be drouth in Osskil," teaches the Master Summoner, "and a calm in the East Reach may be storm and ruin in the West, unless you know what you are about".

By Theodore Roethke The New Yorker, July 22 , 1939P. 66 Last night a rain broke up the summer's drouth.

The New Yorker, July 22 , 1939P. 66 Last night a rain broke up the summer's drouth.