Sentence examples for A dust of from inspiring English sources

A "dust of snow from a hemlock tree" once gave the poet Robert Frost "a change of mood" that saved his day.

For chocolate lovers, a chocolate cupcake arrived filled with a dark molten chocolate center, a dust of chocolate atop; vanilla ice cream set it off beautifully.

He can have no name because he has no being; the only real thing about him is this lack of being, which he expresses through a "dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing".

A snowfall of delicate white crab is napped by a vivid green pepper emulsion and hunks of charred cucumber, galvanised by black olive oil and a dust of dehydrated tapenade.

But everything was right with a succulent crab cake jam-packed with real crab and without perceptible bread binding and with plump littleneck clams casino, warm under a dust of seasoned panko.

He can have no name because he has no being; the only real thing about him is this lack of being, which he expresses through a "dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing". In the Bible, unnamability is evidence of holiness; for Beckett, it is the cornerstone of the absurd.

A dusting of soil went on top.

And not just a dusting of frost.

Both start with a dusting of snow.

(The secret? A dusting of chickpea flour).

Serve warm or chilled, with a dusting of icing sugar.