Definition of powdery
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: covered with or as if with powder
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Examples of powdery in a Sentence
the beach's powdery white sand
We skied down the powdery slopes.
Recent Examples of powdery from the Web
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Think of it as the antithesis of your grandma’s powdery eau de parfum.
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The powdery substance is then mixed into wet concrete before it gets poured into place.
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This was 1992, and the look was matte, powdery skin; 'radiance' and 'glow' didn’t mean anything.
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Beckham has been at the center of some controversy during the offseason after a video surfaced of him and a woman in bed with a pizza, a brown cigarette and an undetermined powdery white substance.
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Uncontrolled construction of too many establishments so close to the shoreline and the lack of sewerage systems have created environmental problems for the central Philippine destination famous for its powdery white-sand beaches.
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There are lots of rocks that come in powdery form that aren’t red and didn’t get used.
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Lithium, a powdery chemical element that is extracted from igneous rock and mineral water, is also used in batteries, lubricating grease and rocket fuel.
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News of the split comes a month after the former model, 40, was hospitalized after the family received a suspicious letter containing a white, powdery substance that police later found to be nontoxic.
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First Known Use of powdery
15th century
POWDERY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of powdery for English Language Learners
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: like powder
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: covered with powder
POWDERY Defined for Kids
Definition of powdery for Students
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: made of or like powder
- powdery snow
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: easily crumbled
- powdery bricks
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: covered or sprinkled with or as if with powder
- a powdery mountain slope
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