have a drought
Frequency: 7.09.5 per million words
to experience a period of drought
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- England has had several summer droughts in recent years.
- The region had a severe drought last year, which devastated local agriculture.
- If we don't get significant rainfall soon, the entire state will have a drought.
- This arid part of the country frequently has droughts that can last for months.
- They hadn't had a drought this extreme in over a century.
- Is it true that this area has never had a drought before?
- When a country has a prolonged drought, it affects everything from food prices to energy production.
- We had such a bad drought that the reservoir completely dried up.
- Having had a drought for three consecutive years, the government declared a state of emergency.
- Scientists warn that we are likely to have another drought this summer if temperatures remain high.