dusty

Example Sentences

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Her lips are a neutral dusty mauve, her bass guitar a lustrous red.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

“When the Emperor Was Divine” takes place in Utah, in “a city of tar-paper barracks behind a barbed-wire fence on a dusty alkaline plain.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

The glow comes from a dusty disk that the star expelled only a few hundred years ago.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2026

Even now the dusty red-sand roads around the town remain deserted.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

Our ‘ōhi‘a lehua, with bright red flowers exploding like fireworks amid the dusty green leaves.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila