eating the dust
Example Sentences
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I crossed the Wabash tracks past the grain elevator on my way to Veech’s garage, eating the dust of the trucks hauling in the beans.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
A moment before we had been almost literally eating the dust the car ahead had raised.
From Guy Garrick by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
The realm of the dead was a dark place under the earth, where the dead lived as shadows, eating the dust of the earth.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
