severe drought
Frequency: 8.015.1 per million words
a very serious drought
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- Large areas of Africa are affected by severe drought.
- The region experienced a severe drought last summer, leading to widespread crop failure.
- Climate models predict more frequent and severe droughts in the coming decades.
- A severe drought has gripped the western states for three consecutive years.
- Farmers are struggling to survive the severe drought that has decimated their livestock.
- The government declared a state of emergency due to the severe drought.
- After months without rain, the land was parched by a severe drought.
- This is the most severe drought the area has seen in over a century.
- Ecologists are studying the long-term effects of the severe drought on local wildlife.
- If the severe drought continues, major cities will have to implement water rationing.