How to Use dusty in a Sentence

dusty

adjective
  • His new tie is a dusty blue.
  • He pulled dusty candlesticks from the shelf.
  • Similarly, Bosc Pear ripens up a dusty tone with something a bit yellowish-golden.
    Tim Nelson, Architectural Digest, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The driver-narrator brought us slowly towards a herd of buffalo relaxing in their dusty wallow.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Somewhere in flat and dusty Texas, a man with a red flag raises his arm to warn of road work ahead.
    Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • At sunset, the room is bathed in a dusty pink glow, while at night, the city lights almost make the room twinkle.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 June 2023
  • For dusty baseboards and window sills, opt for the dusting brush.
    Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Most of these are young stars still snuggled up in their dusty cocoons.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The slippers come in four colors: chestnut, dusty pink, gray, and black.
    Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
  • On a recent hot afternoon, the 23-year-old sat on a dusty couch in the middle of a street.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
  • The big names would fly in, but most people traveled by bus, along bumpy, dusty roads.
    The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2024

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