dusts

present tense third-person singular of dust

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of dusts Snow paints the eaves over us and dusts the clapboard under the window. Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025 Trails remain accessible, wildlife is still active and early snow dusts the surrounding Chugach Mountains. Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dusts
Verb
  • Remind them their worth is non-negotiable When your child fails — gets cut from the team, bombs a test — remind them their value isn't up for debate.
    Jennifer Breheny Wallace, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • So unless Benito uncharacteristically whips out a slate of cover songs, his set will be entirely in Spanish.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025
  • So the magnetic field has to stay synchronized with the increasing mass of the particle, ramping up in strength as the particle whips around.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • According to the notice, the site uses a misleading logo, charges inflated prices and buries a disclaimer far down the page that does not meet state requirements.
    Nour Rahal, Freep.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Decades of work is on the line as the administration strips funding, guts agencies, scrubs resources and buries datasets.
    Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, the new fuel cell overcomes this challenge with its lightweight design.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Saginaw’s surge overcomes Boswell The Pioneers of Boswell dominated play in the opening half, building a 21-0 lead that looked rock solid behind a persistent defense and an offense balanced with good running and passing.
    Pat Wheeler, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Mahomes set the tone for Worthy with their deep 37-yard connection early, but the two vintage Mahomes throws came later — a fade in the second quarter to Travis Kelce and his fourth and final touchdown to Hollywood Brown in the fourth quarter.
    Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Prescott completed 12 passes for 162 yards and a touchdown on those 14 throws under pressure.
    Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The sequencer pastes together the strings and the quality scores, along with some other metadata, read by read, to form what is called a FASTQ file.
    Dmitri Pavlichin, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2018
Verb
  • If tequila is your best friend, mezcal is your best friend’s dangerous cousin, the one who rides a motorcycle and smokes cigarettes.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2025
  • This notion of a cool dino who smokes is the natural extension of that commitment.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Parsons Capital Management, based in Providence, Rhode Island, tops this year’s CNBC Financial Advisor 100 list.
    , CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Her Instagram following tops 84 million, putting her in league with Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande.
    Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Dusts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dusts. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.

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