Sentence examples for dusted from inspiring English sources
The word 'dusted' is correct and commonly used in written English
It can be used as a verb, meaning to sprinkle or lightly cover something with a powder or dust, or as an adjective, meaning covered with dust. Example 1 (verb): She dusted the cupcakes with powdered sugar before serving them. Example 2 (adjective): The old bookshelf was covered in dusted books and trinkets.
And yet, while members of contemporary bands fell by the wayside - some into career obscurity, others into drug-hazed oblivion - Brown picked himself up, dusted himself down and, unbowed and self-possessed, confounded his critics.
In the past seven decades it has been dusted with Hollywood magic, embellished by those who were not there, immortalised in history books and carved into local legend.
Karel rose and dusted himself down.
A hoary plan to build a canal in Nicaragua was dusted off last month, surely not by coincidence.
Meanwhile tantalum (used as an insulator in mobile-phone chips) once became so valuable that it, too, helped drive a war the civil war in eastern Congo, where its ore has been dusted over the countryside like icing sugar by ancient volcanic eruptions.The latest element to be dragged out of obscurity by the chemist-descendants of Prince Henry the Navigator is hafnium.
A decade-old plan to build a new airport near Delhi is being dusted off.
AN OLD line of Hank Paulson's has been dusted off since news broke of a €4.9 billion ($7.2 billion) trading loss at Société Générale, France's second-largest bank.
The national government wants it all done and dusted well before the general election in 2015, in order to burnish its reformist credentials at the polls and to give Mr Thein Sein his legacy.
The former Mufti of Jerusalem can no longer be dusted down and brought forward as the leader of all Palestinians; he is now heard from only when it suits his Egyptian hosts.
People dusted off ham radios and fax machines.Snap crackle popThe more complex communications networks become, the harder it is to disable them swiftly, remotely or unilaterally.
Yet, in their density, robustness and absorbency, semolina-dusted English muffins are quite clearly the most practical base for all that hollandaise and (unless something has gone disastrously wrong), egg yolk.
