dust devil
Example Sentences
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Another dust devil was filmed travelling a short distance in a field in Wistow, between Cambridge and Peterborough.
From BBC • Aug. 18, 2024
The dust devil came and went over Perseverance quickly last year, thus the short length of the audio, said the University of Toulouse’s Naomi Murdoch, lead author of the study appearing in Nature Communications.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2022
What it needs is a direct hit by a dust devil, because such vortices are capable of cleaning solar panels.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2022
“Maybe we’ll get a nice thick dust devil and we’ll have enough power to keep going for a while,” Daubar says.
From Scientific American • May 24, 2022
A dust devil twirled eastward from the sage across the flat deserted fields, catching tumbleweeds, bouncing them along and letting them go, weaving among the crumbled houses and rusty car hulks—a truly desolate scene.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
