DUST in a Sentence

Learn DUST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

249 example sentences for DUST, such as:

1. The carriage left a trail of dust.
2. There is a lot of dust on this table.
3. God formed man of the dust of the ground.
4. Would rather go low to the dust, in order to bloom.
5. No troops raised the red dust with their tramping feet.

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dust
 v.  cover lightly with a powdered substance
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It was a savagely red land, blood-colored after rains, brick dust in droughts, the best cotton land in the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  At the sight of him, the Tarleton hounds rose up out of the red dust and stood waiting expectantly for their masters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  You kick up such a heap of dust that we're choking, said Scarlett, who felt that she could endure conversation no longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Rhett Butler removed a fine linen handkerchief from his coat pocket and idly flicked dust from his sleeve.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  The red road lay checkered in shade and sun glare beneath the over-arching trees and the many hooves kicked up little red clouds of dust.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  Looms that had gathered dust for years had been brought down from attics, and there were webs of homespun to be found in nearly every parlor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  The fringe of women on foot and in carriages grew greater and greater, and the heat of the close-packed bodies and dust rising from restless feet were suffocating.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  She thought wildly: Let the whole Confederacy crumble in the dust.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  The straggling line re-formed, the dust arose again in a red cloud as they moved off and Big Sam started up the singing again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  They passed Aunt Pitty's house, jolting over the bumpy road, packed with wounded and dying men, dripping blood into the red dust.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  No troops raised the red dust with their tramping feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  She noted how the leaves on the trees were still dark green but dry and heavily coated with red dust, and how withered and sad the untended flowers in the front yard looked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
13  The spurred horse went off as though on springs and Scarlett was left standing in the middle of the street with the red dust thick upon her ankles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  Through the tangle of ambulances and the clouds of dust, she could see doctors and stretcher bearers bending, lifting, hurrying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  Long lines of soldiers were passing, dust covered, sodden with weariness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
16  God formed man of the dust of the ground.
17  The carriage left a trail of dust.
18  There is a lot of dust on this table.
19  Would rather go low to the dust, in order to bloom.
20  I cannot recall any other instance in modern times in which a huge and mighty state crumbled to dust.
21  The family decided to shake the dust off their feet and emigrate to Australia.
22  And quite frequently, dust in the air produces colored rain, like the red-tinted rain that dropped fine grit from the Sahara over southern England in 1968.
23  On a summer night, a mantle of dust hangs over the gravel roads.
24  The comet it had met was itself a visitor from the outer limits of the solar system and the dust particle it shed, and which Stardust caught, have been untouched since the Solar System formed billions of years ago.
25  Tom drew a line in the dust with his big toe, and said: "I dare you to step over that, and I'll lick you till you can't stand up."
26  We were now outside Thornfield gates, to bowl lightly along the smooth road to Millcote, where the dust was well laid by the thunderstorm.
27  As interstellar dust and debris crashes into the earth's upper atmosphere, it burns up in an intense streak of light across the night sky.
28  The dust particles from the comet have been untouched since the Solar System formed billions of years ago.
29  I always thought I was good at math until I had to give up helping Chelsea with her homework when she was in ninth grade; an illusion bites the dust.
30  The air grew thick with dust and cordite as Leopard 2 tanks raced across the scrubby landscape, with howitzer fire providing cover and helicopters circling overhead.