DUSTY in a Sentence

Learn DUSTY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

77 example sentences for DUSTY, such as:

1. It is September, hot, very dusty.
2. Between times he napped in the dusty peace of his office.
3. The prairie encircled the lake, lay round her, raw, dusty, thick.
4. Scarlett burrowed her head in the dusty upholstery and screamed again.
5. The car pulled up too fast and skidded on the dusty shoulder of the road.

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 Meanings and Examples of DUSTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dusty
 a.  covered with a layer of dust
 a.  lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
Classic Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
1  When they had rounded the curve of the dusty road that hid them from Tara, Brent drew his horse to a stop under a clump of dogwood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Yesterday she had worked until she was worn out in the dusty old barn of an Armory draping yellow and pink and green cheesecloth on the booths that lined the walls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Scarlett held wobbling heads that parched lips might drink, poured buckets of water over dusty, feverish bodies and into open wounds that the men might enjoy a brief moment's relief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  Autumn with its dusty, breathless heat was slipping in to choke the suddenly quiet town, adding its dry, panting weight to tired, anxious hearts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  The width of the continent might have spread between her and home instead of twenty- five miles of dusty road.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  Finally, she could not talk at all and only stared out of the window at the hot still street and the dusty leaves hanging motionless on the trees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  Noon came and the sun was high and hot and not a breath of air stirred the dusty leaves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  It was gray and dusty, and sweat had streaked long rivulets across his cheeks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  Scarlett burrowed her head in the dusty upholstery and screamed again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  Lily, turning her eyes from him, found herself scanning her little world through his retina: it was as though the pink lamps had been shut off and the dusty daylight let in.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
11  It is September, hot, very dusty.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  It was not a scorching, hard, dusty day like the treacherous intruder of a week before, but soaked with languor, softened with a milky light.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  Between times he napped in the dusty peace of his office.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  The pale bark of the poplar sticks was mottled with lichens of sage-green and dusty gray; the newly sawed ends were fresh-colored, with the agreeable roughness of a woolen muffler.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  The prairie encircled the lake, lay round her, raw, dusty, thick.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  His black hat was the brown color of the earth and his clothes were dusty and torn.
2  The car pulled up too fast and skidded on the dusty shoulder of the road.