The phrase "a wave of dust" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden or large amount of dust that is stirred up, often in a dramatic or visual context.
Example: "As the truck sped down the dirt road, it kicked up a wave of dust that enveloped the surrounding area."
Alternatives: "a cloud of dust" or "a surge of dust".
A galactic structure called a radio loop -- a wave of gas and dust spewed by a stellar explosion -- passes right through the patch of sky that was surveyed by the microwave telescope.
A man whose shop is close to the blast site said: "I was busy in my shop when I heard a deafening explosion, and then a wave of heat, flying sand and dust hit me in the face.
"They were faced with this really bombastic wave of dust and debris in the hallways, ceilings collapsing, the essential services being discontinued without notice – if they have to do some plumbing work they just turn off the water without notice," he said.
The RAMS/HYPACT model accounts for advection, convection, and dispersion of emissions after the collapse of the towers, but is not constructed to model the initial wave of dust and debris.
All of a sudden, we were engulfed by a tidal wave of black dust and chunks of rocklike particles.
A silent wave of tiny dust particles and other pollutants has been sliding over the hills and down the Pearl River from mainland China, from Guangdong Province, once a quiet agricultural area and now one of the world's biggest manufacturing centers.
Researchers now can tackle the mystery of why the winds create sooty waves of dust particles for only a few months during each 8-year orbit, Williams says.
From the back of the heard emerges a host of warriors, hundreds strong, riding the waves of dust, some of the riders popping up from suicide positions, revealing their numbers at the last minute, the legendary death bands, horrible, their shields bedecked with shards of mirror, clasping and refracting millions of shards of light into the eyes of the onlookers bestride their hoof-shifting horses.
With grasshoppers pinging off the windshield like hailstones, Marvin Schrank mows through row after row of ripe milo maize, swarms of the insects rolling in waves of dust just ahead of his John Deere combine.
