8 sentences with 'drought'
Example sentences and phrases with the word drought and other words derived from it.
• « Around 1050 BC, two of the victims of the collapse, the New Kingdom of Egypt and the Hittite Empire, left clear indications in their records that drought had undermined their grain stores and social stability. »
• « After the drought it was discovered that only half a litre of camel milk per day can keep a child alive. Based on this discovery, the Israeli researcher's efforts concentrated on breeding "super camels", which will be exported to the worst affected areas. »
• « For years its habitat has been modified by drought and consequently it has had to change its respiratory system to survive. »
• « Being a lagoon fish, it had to become accustomed to drought and was evidently able to modify its respiratory system (gills) sufficiently to move below ground. »
• « We noticed that as soon as there were signs of drought, the minnows disappeared from the ponds, even though there was still a medium amount of water in them. Then they would resurface and swim away as if nothing had happened. »
• « In computer terms, the human comes from the genetic and we are moving towards the neural. It is genetic rather than neural information that we use to escape from a tiger, but not from a drought or a social crisis. Activities as complex as the latter require not one brain, but many. »
• « Some diseases are caused by the effects of an unfavourable environment (cold, heat, drought, air or water pollution). »
• « However, due to poor soil and a drought that lasted nearly two centuries, their civilisation declined around 900 AD and they abandoned their major population centres. »