How to Use dusty in a Sentence

dusty

adjective

• His new tie is a dusty blue.
• He pulled dusty candlesticks from the shelf.
• My backside slid down the side of the car and sat on the dusty ground.
  — Mike Postalakis, Spin, 5 Sep. 2023
• There is a nice dusty spice on the nose which follows through on the palate.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 Jan. 2024
• The musty, dusty smell of old books brings me back to those moments.
  — Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
• Unlike the Serengeti or the Mara, Amboseli is for much of the year an arid, dusty place.
  — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2024
• The dusty corners of your house are finally a thing of the past.
  — Emily Rochotte, Women's Health, 12 July 2023
• The sun lights up the planet’s icy, dusty rings from behind.
  — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Weeds now poke through the parking lot's dusty grounds where his farm used to be.
  — Julia Frankel, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2024
• Rescuers worked through the night to find survivors buried in the dusty ruins.
  — Sam Metz and Mosa’ab Eishamy, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2023
• The nine-second clip seen above opens with a dusty cloud over a desert surface.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 9 May 2023
• The dusty earth was already making the cheery bright colours look dull and faded.
  — Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
• In the middle of the barren Nevada desert, there’s a dusty unmarked road that leads to the front gate of Area 51.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023
• The ambulance pulled away, to drive down bumpy, dusty roads and again past the still-burning home.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Heidi Levine and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
• Somewhere in flat and dusty Texas, a man with a red flag raises his arm to warn of road work ahead.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• At sunset, the room is bathed in a dusty pink glow, while at night, the city lights almost make the room twinkle.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 22 June 2023
• For dusty baseboards and window sills, opt for the dusting brush.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
• Most of these are young stars still snuggled up in their dusty cocoons.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
• The slippers come in four colors: chestnut, dusty pink, gray, and black.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
• Not here, in this dusty field strewn with dead people wrapped in blankets and zipped up in body bags.
  — TIME, 28 Oct. 2023
• My bathroom looks so neat now and my bottles aren’t dusty.
  — Sam Peters, ELLE, 22 Feb. 2023
• However, this pastel is dusty enough to not be too bright for the entrance of the season.
  — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2023
• The dusty material that forms them can hide the stars from view right when a disc is shaping around them.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
• Along the dusty paths, a stark picture emerges: On one side of the trail, a vibrant ecosystem; on the other, a charred graveyard of Joshua trees.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
• The big leaves do tend to get dusty, so use a damp cloth to wipe them down occasionally.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2023
• For most, antiquing is a dusty time machine in an old-world era that may seem dated.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 21 June 2023
• Due to its lower dust content, star system HH 1177 isn’t cloaked in the dusty cocoon it was born in.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
• Behind him are dozens of wheelchairs wrapped in dusty plastic.
  — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• The vases are offered in a variety of pastels, like mint green and dusty pink.
  — Hannah Baker, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Mar. 2023
• On a misty morning, a dusty pick-up pulls up carrying the remains of a young fighter.
  — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024