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Examples of dusty in a Sentence
He pulled dusty candlesticks from the shelf.
His new tie is a dusty blue.
Recent Examples of dusty from the Web
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This is the season when cars are coated in a dusty patina until their owners simply can't stand the dirty fingers that come from opening the doors.
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The space promises to deliver on Dôen’s carefully curated palette of dusty and warm hues that feel native to California, as well as the sisters’ own Santa Barbara roots.
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People laying out that kind of cash don't want to see dusty baseboards, dirty ceiling fans, or hair in the tub.
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Gorgeous melodies and harmonies, dusty acoustic instrumentation and an inclination for breaking into a jam all mark this ever-rising trio.
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Early Boston-area craft beer enthusiasts will remember Idle Hands’ first brewery, a tiny storefront flanking a dusty alley in Everett, a door down from Night Shift’s original (and equally gritty) location.
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Authorities in Pacaraima, a hardscrabble dusty border town in the middle of the Amazon region, say the Warao began crossing into the region in 2016, a full year before tens of thousands of non-indigenous Venezuelans began arriving.
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Of all the ways to wear these soft, dusty, My Little Pony-esque hues, laid-back, weekend clothes are our favorite.
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Bio-Bottle Jack Hydraulic Fluid is the perfect economical choice for hydraulic equipment operating outside, where unpredictable higher moisture and dusty environments are more prominent and the equipment require more frequent oil change intervals.
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First Known Use of dusty
13th century
dusty Synonyms
Synonyms
arid, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, ponderous, slow, stale, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying;
Antonyms
absorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, riveting;
Near Antonyms
amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, eye-opening, fabulous, marvelous (or marvellous), sensational, spectacular, surprising, wonderful, wondrous;
animating, breathtaking, electrifying, energizing, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, galvanizing, hair-raising, inspiring, invigorating, rip-roaring, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrilling;
amusing, diverting, entertaining;
alluring, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating;
Related Words
aseptic, barren, blah, dullish, pleasureless, prosaic, prosy, soggy, spiritless;
blank, earthbound, gray (also grey), inanimate, pallid, pedantic, sterile, suspenseless, undramatic, uneventful, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, unnewsworthy, unrewarding, unsensational, unspectacular;
annoying, bothersome, irksome, irritating;
draining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, wearing;
demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting;
common, commonplace, ordinary, tepid, unexceptional, unsurprising, vapid;
cumbersome, lumbering, plodding, poky (or pokey);
DUSTY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of dusty for English Language Learners
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: filled or covered with dust
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: slightly gray : somewhat dark or dull in color
DUSTY Defined for Kids
Definition of dusty for Students
- dusty soil
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