Sentence examples for coloured dust from inspiring English sources

Then you notice the medium: pastel on vellum – coloured dust on stretched skin.

He has already made the tourists of Venice look differently at pigeons, singling out certain birds for transformation with kingfisher colours; and We Are All Astronauts, displayed in this show, is a most beautiful meditation on international politics featuring 10 globes – or more precisely, globes and the mingled coloured dust from their maps.

While water seeping through the sediment will turn the ground dark, the violent vaporisation blasts lightly-coloured dust off the surface, revealing darker ground underneath.

As I watch my brother click through a curvaceous arch at the view - small flat-roofed houses, many painted in the typical faded blue of the region, against copper-coloured dust and connected by a warren of alleyways, with the clean desert sky dominating - I wonder how many people have photographed the same scene.

The affected forest had been left threadbare by the cull while an adjacent ELC was just empty hectares of khaki-coloured dust.

Like a bad fairy princess bullying her court musician, I made Grandma play on and on until the moment when it seemed that we might both spin ourselves into a cloud of coloured chalk dust of the kind that Bert the pavement artist uses to sketch his magical alternative worlds.

Although the special effects have long been supplanted by ones that don't involve turning the camera on and off, I still love the way the medicine changes colour and the way they jump into the pavement art in a puff of coloured chalk dust and wind up with those penguins at the cafe.

The revellers "fight" by throwing coloured flour, charcoal dust and powder painting until they essentially run out of supplies.

Three huge skeletal steel sheds, empty since the 1970s, will be paired with new buildings and dressed, says Adam Caruso, in panels of precast concrete coloured with brick dust from the site.

Pigments (coloured molecules) from coal dust or asbestos dust may infiltrate the lungs of certain dogs in two types of lung disease: anthracosis and asbestosis.

We pass numerous varieties of banksia, huge grass trees hundreds of years old, and tenacious wild flowers poking their brightly coloured heads through the dust.