Sentence examples for a dusting of powder from inspiring English sources

In the manufacturing process, a bar pushes a dusting of powder onto the plate, a laser above the plate melts the powder in specific spots, and the melted metal cools and solidifies.

Mr. Palau was more severe at Marc Jacobs (bottom far right), coiling the hair into topknots that balanced Fran?s Nars's pale face, created with Mr. Nars's aptly named foundation, Siberia, and a dusting of powder in Snow.

"On the other hand, if they distinguish between snows that take either one kick or two to get it all off your boots, or if a dusting of powder and a big dump of the stuff have completely different names, they might have us beat".

"It's so important to get that message out.... That's the struggle, O.K.? Is to try to educate people who think the only reason I'm going to Fox today is Tatum O'Neal!" At the studio, having received a dusting of powder on his tanned face ("I saw you on VH1, talking about Mötley Crüe," the makeup artist told him), Samuels sat in a corona of bright stage light.

Topped off with a dusting of powder sugar and a side of cherry-fig jam, this sandwich will leave you stuffed.

Makeup artist Tom Pecheux's strategically applied concealer ("under the eyes, inner corners and beginning of the brow bone") was complemented with a mere curling of the eyelashes and a dusting of powder.

There was a dusting of chili powder, too.

Lancôme's Star Bronzer ($29.50 at www.lancome.com) delivers a dusting of bronzing powder.

Even if the shells aren't perfect, a dusting of cocoa powder will fix everything.

I had been opening mail at my desk that afternoon in August 2010 when a dusting of white powder fell from the folds of a letter.

Once set, roll the ganache into even-sized balls, using a dusting of cocoa powder to prevent them from becoming sticky.