dusty
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BATURAJA, Indonesia—Marching down a dusty trail lined with elephant grass, First Lt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Her memories of favorite foods has remained intact, like images preserved in a dusty family album.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
It is still orbiting within its young star's dusty disk, giving scientists a rare opportunity to study planet formation while it is still happening.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
She didn’t bring goggles or even a big coat to survive the cold, dusty nights.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Even the cabbages, radishes, and long green beans laid out on the vegetable carts were dusty, despite the sellers swiping them with cloths at regular intervals.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
The other issue here is Verstappen was ahead at the apex, slightly, only because he had braked later than Norris, despite being on the dustier inside line where there would be less grip.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024
As California’s largest lake has continued to evaporate, it’s become saltier and dustier, causing breathing problems for locals like Clark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
If that conclusion is confirmed, it suggests the early universe was much dustier than previously thought.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
Hallar’s data show the south-central region of the state where the May storm originated is getting dustier by about 2 percent per year.
From Scientific American ● May 10, 2023
As they turned onto an even dustier, more littered road than the one the hotel was on, Lupita glanced at Salvador’s face.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
"It's the reddest, dustiest red supergiant that we've seen explode as a supernova," Suresh said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2025
Another Grann specialty is on full display — creating a cast of indelible characters from the dustiest of sources: 18th century ship’s logs, surgeons’ textbooks, court-martial proceedings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
The bottom of my purse is the dustiest environment in the world, and I don’t love the main screen’s chances against my toddler if he ever got ahold of it.
From The Verge ● Aug. 17, 2022
"These sites are becoming dustier and dustier, and last year was by far the dustiest year of our study," Blakowski asserted in an interview with Salon.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2022
Jordan College was scoured from the dustiest box-room to the darkest cellar, and so were Gabriel and St. Michael’s, till the heads of all the colleges issued a joint protest asserting their ancient rights.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing dusty
Two-Faced Words: Contronyms
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -y
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