Sentence examples for dust the first from inspiring English sources

Papyrus, parchment, paper... videotape, DVDs, Blu-ray discs — long after all these materials have crumbled to dust, the first recording medium of all, the cuneiform clay tablet of ancient Mesopotamia, may still endure.

He was convinced that his next novel, Flags in the Dust, the first Yoknapatawpha story, was his best yet, but to his shock his publishers turned it down; heavily edited, it was eventually published as Sartoris in 1928.

For instance, Come To Dust, the second-to-last track, is a musical reprise of Reach for the Dead, which comes in as the second track.

Beta Pic's fame dates to 1983, when a satellite photographed its vast cocoon of dust--the first glimpse of a suspected planetary system in the making.

Sixty chemicals were detected in either dust or air and here we report 58 SVOCs detected in dust for the first time.

They fit the halo surface brightness with two different dust distributions: The first assumes a uniform distribution along the LOS, and the second has four dust clouds located at x = 0.2, x = 0.4, x = 0.6 and x = 0.8, respectively.

There was dust from the first floor, which was very fuliginous, dark and greasy.

There are two explanations just as there are two cathedrals – one of stone, one of dust – in the first chapter.

Mr. Oestreicher said tests indicated the presence of asbestos dust on the first and second floors and the basement, but not on the third or fourth floors.

There was something for Graeme Swann to smile about after toiling in the heat and dust of the first day of the series, but not much for the rest of his team-mates.

Namely, very few of those ideas are on the path to commercialisation, instead being passed back to the same institutions where the original IP was gathering dust in the first place.