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
As I slowly hobbled my way back down the path and out onto the dusty lane, I could hear Mrs. Maroney calling, “Charity Englehart! Where is Miss Charity? I need her to entertain Flora. Now!”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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
The A clump is bluer, mostly free of dust and bursting with baby stars, whereas B is redder, dustier and comparatively lacking in new stars.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 2023
A pretty good show, really, although it gets dustier every day It’s a mother, a father, two sisters, me, and a younger brother.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
"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
As the public's interest in air quality grows, as evidenced by Purple Air's network of over 10,000 air quality monitoring devices, researchers are eager to identify the dustiest sources to inform policymakers.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2022
Grandpa loved the dustiest stores best because they were the ones that would have uncracked rolls of coins in the backs of their safes.
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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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