How to Use powdery in a Sentence

powdery

adjective

• We skied down the powdery slopes.
• There are lots of rocks that come in powdery form that aren’t red and didn’t get used.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2018
• The smell is powdery and floral — a true rich-lady scent.
  — Jessica Prince Erlich, The Cut, 2 Feb. 2018
• The disease produces a powdery white fungus on the nose, ears and wings.
  — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2017
• Stretch out on the powdery white sand, kayak along the shoreline, or take a dip in the inviting warm waters.
  — National Geographic, 5 Oct. 2019
• Then, as the white ropes began to sail through a sky tinged with the powdery purple of twilight, plans gave way to play.
  — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• This winter in the Louisville area has so far been light on snow, with the city receiving about an inch and a half of the powdery stuff.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 6 Feb. 2020
• Emerald green, blush pink, and powdery slate blue are the most livable of the hues popping up these days.
  — Joanna Linberg, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• A quick blast of water with your hose also takes care of aphids, rose slugs and powdery mildew spores.
  — Rita Perwich, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 June 2017
• Many are small slides of powdery snow that move as a formless mass downslope.
  — National Geographic, 19 July 2019
• The disease produces a powdery white fungus on the nose, ears and wings of diseased bats.
  — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2017
• The mom detected a powdery residue at the bottom of one bottle.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• The deadly, white, powdery substance was on the floor of the vehicle, which somehow got on him.
  — CBS News, 17 May 2017
• One of the hallmarks of great Burgundy—or any special pinot noir for that matter—is a smooth, powdery feel that coats the mouth.
  — Mark Oldman, Bloomberg.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• The drought made the already insubstantial dirt weak and powdery, and the piers of the shotgun houses sank into the earth.
  — Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2014
• Because the plants are kept in a greenhouse there is a constant battle with aphids, white flies, and powdery mildew.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2010
• At the jail, in a jacket pocket, officers found on the man a white, powdery substance.
  — cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• This was 1992, and the look was matte, powdery skin; 'radiance' and 'glow' didn’t mean anything.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 30 Mar. 2018
• Piles of powdery black sand, used to make molds that produce various parts, line one wall.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
• Think of it as the antithesis of your grandma’s powdery eau de parfum.
  — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 9 Apr. 2018
• If your trees have a white, powdery-looking covering on the bark, treat it with dormant oil.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 2 Jan. 2020
• During the search, Jake alerted on a powdery substance.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al.com, 22 July 2019
• The plan was to pop off the top of the mountain, drop onto its powdery face and shred its untouched slope, racing against gravity for the sheer love of it.
  — Author: Christine Hauser, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2018
• This spring's look is more natural than the matte caked or powdery finish of the recent past.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2018
• While gorging on pollen, insects get the powdery substance all over their bodies and faces.
  — National Geographic, 26 May 2017
• The idea is to use extremely small dosages of the light that will kill much of the powdery white fungus, so bats have a better chance of surviving the winter.
  — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2017
• Cheers erupted in living rooms and bars and airports and parks across the country when Neil Armstrong took his first, powdery steps.
  — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
• The plan is for a landing craft to lower itself from the orbiter and gently plop itself down on the powdery moon surface.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 14 July 2019
• Ski or snowboard down the powdery slopes of the Southern Alps, and document all the action for a short adventure film.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• The officer found a folded paper in the man’s wallet that contained a powdery substance.
  — cleveland, 13 Feb. 2020

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