Definition of POWDERY

Examples of powdery in a Sentence

the beach's powdery white sand We skied down the powdery slopes.

Recent Examples on the Web Klorane and Batiste lean more powdery, Dove and Tresemmé have more of a micro-mist, while Living Proof has oil-eliminating molecules that actually clean your hair. — Glamour Beauty Editors, Glamour, "Shop All the Glamour Beauty Awards Readers’ Choice Hair Nominees," 15 Jan. 2020 One, in a darkened tunnel, is shot amid a crimson glow and a clouds of powdery white (from a flour truck). — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, "‘Bloodshot’ has plenty of brawn, but lacks brains," 12 Mar. 2020 The server set the jars’ tops aside, reached in with silver tongs and lifted a long, chubby white band of powdery marshmallow, snipping off squares with shiny oversize scissors. — Dorie Greenspan, New York Times, "The Sensuous Pleasures of Handmade Marshmallows," 5 Feb. 2020 In total, law enforcement seized 56 kilos of the white, powdery drug from beneath the bananas, valued at nearly $1.4 million, authorities said. — Katie Mettler, Washington Post, "These Safeway shipments were bananas — and so was the cocaine found inside," 23 Aug. 2019 The officer found a folded paper in the man’s wallet that contained a powdery substance. — cleveland, "Motorist with warrants calls police when locked out of car: Middleburg Heights Police Blotter," 13 Feb. 2020 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, "Freezing temps bring chance of snow after Louisville's warm weather comes to an end," 6 Feb. 2020 The closest color approximation is a powdery orange that falls somewhere between the actor George Hamilton’s complexion and a package of Sizzlean. — New York Times, "In London, Cheetos Tans and a Codpiece Are in Fashion," 6 Jan. 2020 For the past eight days, two steel anvils have been crushing a powdery mix of compounds inside the press at temperatures of more than 1,500 °C and up to 40,000 times atmospheric pressure. — Mark Zastrow, Scientific American, "The Crystal Kings," 26 Nov. 2019

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“Powdery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/powdery. Accessed 25 May. 2020.

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