Sentence examples for tough droughts from inspiring English sources

In fact, many water officials and experts say the tough droughts in the 1960's and 1980's prompted conservation measures that have cut profligate water use.

Clethra alnifolia, or sweet pepperbush, is another tough, drought-tolerant late summer bloomer.

But he could not get a horse into the race in the last two years, a tough drought for someone who puts so much importance on the Derby.

This tough, drought-tolerant perennial now comes in a wide range of colors, from pale yellow to gold to bright orange and the deepest red.

They are particularly central to the overwhelming success of arthropods and vertebrates, especially on land, where most plants and animals possess a tough drought- and injury-resistant covering.

The varieties on the sidewalks depend on many conditions, but the most common are the honey locust, a tough, drought-resistant tree, and the callery pear, noted for white flowers that, in springtime, canopy the sidewalks of New York.

The search for nonfood fuel plants in Asia has led researchers to jatropha, a tough, drought-resistant shrub that produces toxic but oily seeds that can be made into diesel.

God meets us -- and desires to walk with us -- on lush mountaintops and in brown, tough, drought-resistant gardens.

Question: When I moved to Northridge in 1951, every nursery carried flats of lippia, a cheap, tough, drought-resistant ground cover and lawn substitute.

In the 1990s, as the line lay unused and in disrepair (despite the fact that the riveted-steel elevated structure was structurally sound) it became known to a few urban explorers and local residents for the tough, drought-tolerant wild grasses, shrubs, and rugged trees such as sumac that had sprung up in the gravel along the abandoned railway.

It's an incredibly hardy plant, able to withstand even the toughest droughts, and it's widespread covering about 30percentt of Australia's Outback.