dusty
Example Sentences
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Ordinary stars often display silicate emission associated with dusty disks.
From Science Daily • Jul. 10, 2026
Still, I appreciated how cinematographer Kevin Atkinson alludes to the dusty Kansas prairie with a shot of a beige strip mall.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2026
In front of one of the screens, a woman bursts into tears as she recognises her son thanks to a dusty blanket.
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2026
The writer lived in this building, well before it was known for its oxtail, and the restaurant honors him by displaying a dusty bottle rack said to be his, I don’t ask.
From Salon • Jun. 23, 2026
Near the bottom, I found a dusty box painted with Russian lacquer-work.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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