dusty

Example Sentences

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The candies themselves looked like tiny, dusty potatoes: irregular little lumps of sweet cream with bits of coconut rolled in cinnamon, dusty and warm-smelling, tucked into a plastic tray.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

"Normally it's very dusty and it's much quicker to move the materials so I really enjoyed it," she said.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

Like every other detail here, that implicit complaint is dusty and ossified, and Mr. Williamson’s formerly wised-up dialogue has been supplanted by a grinding earnestness, with everyone constantly asking about one another’s feelings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

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

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2026

It creaks as it swings, revealing a set of dusty concrete steps that ascend to a slightly ajar wooden hatch.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer