Plaster dust blankets the marble steps.
Most of the furniture is covered with dust blankets, but every inch of doorframe and window ledge is daubed artfully with paint in a manner that you imagine an inveterate doodler like Khan must heartily approve of.
In the hours and days after the attacks on the World Trade Center, aerial photographs showed the main plume of smoke and dust blanketing a northwest-to-southeast swath of Brooklyn.
The pollution index monitoring PM2.5 particulates rose to over 500 for several consecutive days in March, more than 20 times the level recommended by the World Health Organisation, and a reminiscence of what has been dubbed as the "airpocalypse" of last year when a cloud of brownish grey dust blanketed the north of China for weeks.
Source of water The water truck arrives sending up a cloud of dust blanketing the awaiting women and children.
Although his past statements about 9/11 health issues have been measured, Mr. Bloomberg yesterday strongly linked the trade center dust that blanketed Lower Manhattan to respiratory, digestive and mental health problems that have been diagnosed in recovery workers and residents.
The problem is the air, the coal dust that blankets the city.... Few things are more pathetic than a tree in Fuling, its leaves gray and dull as if it were just taken out of the attic".
In this small town, the boom years never ended, a stroke of good fortune that was explained by the coat of red dust that blanketed everything from its wide residential streets and manicured lawns to its golf club and drive-in movie theater.
Among the deleterious effects resulting from a major impact event is a cloud of fine dust ejecta blanketing the planet, which lowers land temperatures by about within a week and halts photosynthesis for several months.
Eventually, the long-awaited vehicle arrived, sending up a cloud of dust which blanketed the gathering of women and children.
The circumstances in this region are reminiscent of the dust storms that blanketed the Great Plains in the 1930s, which resulted from the erosion of crop-choked land.
