How to Use dusty in a Sentence

dusty

adjective

• His new tie is a dusty blue.
• He pulled dusty candlesticks from the shelf.
• My backside slid down the side of the car and sat on the dusty ground.
  — Mike Postalakis, Spin, 5 Sep. 2023
• The drive on dusty, red-clay roads was rough and bumpy.
  — Edward Enninful, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2022
• 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
• The mix is lighter in weight and isn't as dusty as some soil blends.
  — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2022
• There is a nice dusty spice on the nose which follows through on the palate.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 Jan. 2024
• The musty, dusty smell of old books brings me back to those moments.
  — Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
• Most of the ones at the Phillips are in shades of white, beige or rose; two are dusty black.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• Since the movie presents a fresh take on the dusty genre, the dress code was super fly.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 14 Oct. 2021
• Unlike the Serengeti or the Mara, Amboseli is for much of the year an arid, dusty place.
  — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2024
• The dusty corners of your house are finally a thing of the past.
  — Emily Rochotte, Women's Health, 12 July 2023
• The dusty Ohtani trudged to the dugout as if marching through a nightmare.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
• The sun lights up the planet’s icy, dusty rings from behind.
  — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Weeds now poke through the parking lot's dusty grounds where his farm used to be.
  — Julia Frankel, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Many of the cards feel pulled out of history, their very names dusty.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• The nine-second clip seen above opens with a dusty cloud over a desert surface.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 9 May 2023
• The dusty earth was already making the cheery bright colours look dull and faded.
  — Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• At least the Covid-19 pandemic is just a dusty blip in the rear-view mirror.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 30 June 2024
• 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
• There’s Iapetus, half of which is dusty and dark, and the other shiny and bright.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2022
• Gold, cream, and dusty rose accents complete the room’s retro look.
  — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2024
• Green paint is peeling off the walls, and dusty props and mirrors litter the floor.
  — Emma Platoff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
• The ambulance pulled away, to drive down bumpy, dusty roads and again past the still-burning home.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Heidi Levine and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
• For the big event, the actress wore a semi-sheer dusty blue gown with a ruffled cape.
  — Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024
• But just three years ago, this landscape, set against the snowcapped peaks of Toubkal National Park, was nothing more than a dusty olive tree farm.
  — Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2024
• Newsletter At one time, the world of non-alcoholic drinks was limited to a few dusty old cans of O’Doul’s sitting in the back fridge of your local bar.
  — Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025