dry lake

noun

1. a tract of land in a desert region over which a shallow lake is formed during the rainy season or after prolonged heavy rains.

Example Sentences

Creosote grows on the desert floor, left, and a cleared construction site on the other side of a fence, right, at the Dry Lake Energy Zone where a new solar array is being constructed 25 miles north of Las Vegas, NV.

From Salon

The DWP has spent $2.5 billion to combat the swirling clouds of powder-fine dust kicked up by fearsome wind gusts on the dry lake bed.

From Los Angeles Times

Monitoring equipment in a brine pool, part of the Owens Lake dust mitigation program on the dry lake bed.

From Los Angeles Times

Jessi Combs, whose 522.783 mph is the current woman’s land speed record, crashed and died in 2019 when she decelerated on a dry lake bed in Oregon.

From Seattle Times

When she moved into her purple trailer in the Antelope Valley — just north of the dry lake bed where NASA’s space shuttle would make its return to Earth — she was warned that the tap water had high levels of arsenic.

From Los Angeles Times