Sentence examples for chalky dust from inspiring English sources

It landed upside down, bodies beneath it, in a cloud of chalky dust.

The air was baked of scent except for the chalky dust.

The sight of the yellow, chalky dust coating unclaimed cars in parking lots.

To be certain, though, they subjected the chalky dust to spectroscopy and a petrographic microscope, only to discover that it was not a manufactured substance, but decayed plant life and fecal matter.

Time and again (when, for example, she writes that 'the air was baked of scent except for the chalky dust with its faint odor of old cardboard') her descriptions make you pause and think, 'Absolutely!

He taught me that Parmesan, the really good stuff, was not, in fact, some chalky dust with the faint aftertang of vomit to it but the king of cheeses, which came in huge rounds, to be eaten at the end of a dinner for its own sake.

There are sea foam green swirls, chalky gray dust and cubed, saltlike deposits.

When the shaking stopped and emergency lights came on, the air was thick with a chalky haze of dust and concrete.

Two sculptures encircle Teplin's high-colour abstractions here: a yawning conch of drippy white plaster that could be a body or a mouth, bearing a picture of the Spanish film-maker rehearsing; and a dinner table, delicately arranged with silver spoons and chalky peaches, left to gather dust like Fragonard's fruit.

Big semis loaded with musical equipment churn up dust in the chalky parking lot.

"I just thought, 'That's the most coolest thing I've ever seen in my life,'" Hoffa said, dusting off the white chalky residue left by a shot on his neck Sunday afternoon here.