Sentence examples for Be powdery from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of or pertaining to powder.
The surfaces, for example, could be powdery ("Lavender Mist") or crusted like tar ("Lucifer"), smooth like hardened stone, thick and tacky or thin and transparent.
After a hot, dry 2016 summer, Fowler noticed a disease, which turned out to be powdery mildew, on some of the leaves of a hop variety called Zeus.
As a member of the space science panel of the President's Science Advisory Committee, he correctly predicted that the moon's surface would be powdery, probably pulverized by legions of strikes by asteroids and comets.
If we set American ingenuity to the task, we can certainly come up with a polymer that would do the job, some petroleum-based product that would be powdery and slick, so that people can Ski the Hill Country.
Fruit bodies are often infested with microlepidoptera species, which causes the pore surface to be powdery.
Remember, soil is a living thing, it should not be powdery and dead.
The white powdery growth is powdery mildew.
The problem with late crops is powdery mildew.
The very intense color is at the base of the smallest leaves, and it's powdery.
The rust pustules are powdery and orange-yellow on the underleaf surface.
Another of the six had so much blue mold that it was powdery and unpleasantly sharp.
