How to Use dusty in a Sentence
dusty
adjective- His new tie is a dusty blue.
- He pulled dusty candlesticks from the shelf.
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My backside slid down the side of the car and sat on the dusty ground.
—Mike Postalakis, Spin, 5 Sep. 2023
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The drive on dusty, red-clay roads was rough and bumpy.
—Edward Enninful, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2022
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The grass in the park was yellow and dusty, and the line to enter the pond was long.
—Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 20 July 2022
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The mix is lighter in weight and isn't as dusty as some soil blends.
—Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2022
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Its bright coma and dusty tail can be seen to the left of the ELT.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 19 Feb. 2025
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There is a nice dusty spice on the nose which follows through on the palate.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 Jan. 2024
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The musty, dusty smell of old books brings me back to those moments.
—Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
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Most of the ones at the Phillips are in shades of white, beige or rose; two are dusty black.
—Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
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Since the movie presents a fresh take on the dusty genre, the dress code was super fly.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 14 Oct. 2021
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Unlike the Serengeti or the Mara, Amboseli is for much of the year an arid, dusty place.
—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2024
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The dusty corners of your house are finally a thing of the past.
—Emily Rochotte, Women's Health, 12 July 2023
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The dusty Ohtani trudged to the dugout as if marching through a nightmare.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
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The sun lights up the planet’s icy, dusty rings from behind.
—Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023
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Their faces were dirty and pale, some were wearing masks in the dusty air.
—Jonas Eika, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
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Weeds now poke through the parking lot's dusty grounds where his farm used to be.
—Julia Frankel, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2024
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Shiny dirt bikes stand out among the donkeys and dusty trucks in the rocky backyards.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2025
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The shade itself is creamy, opaque, and just a little dusty.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2021
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Rescuers worked through the night to find survivors buried in the dusty ruins.
—Sam Metz and Mosa’ab Eishamy, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2023
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Many of the cards feel pulled out of history, their very names dusty.
—Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2021
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The nine-second clip seen above opens with a dusty cloud over a desert surface.
—Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 9 May 2023
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The dusty earth was already making the cheery bright colours look dull and faded.
—Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
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In the middle of the barren Nevada desert, there’s a dusty unmarked road that leads to the front gate of Area 51.
—Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023
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Giller writes to keep an eye out for bloom—the dusty white stuff on the surface of some chocolate bars.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 16 Dec. 2024
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At least the Covid-19 pandemic is just a dusty blip in the rear-view mirror.
—Forrest Brown, CNN, 30 June 2024
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The tests took place about twenty miles south of Christchurch, on a thin, dusty isthmus called the Kaitorete Spit.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
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There’s Iapetus, half of which is dusty and dark, and the other shiny and bright.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2022
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Take it from someone who has bought, sold, found, cleaned, and restored some dusty, oily gems: Your records probably need a good bath.
—Parker Hall, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2025
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But don’t let his creaky joints fool ya: ol’ Dale’s got stories galore, spun from the dusty trails of the frontier days… and a few of ’em might just send a shiver right on down yer spine.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
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