Sentence examples for eating dust from inspiring English sources

'eating dust' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe someone or something being left behind or outdone by another in a figurative sense, such as "John was eating dust as Sheila left him behind in the race."

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We are eating dust.

"We were eating dust" after they left, she says of herself and her colleagues.

"We'd rather be in the forefront than eating dust in the back".

— to take over the lucrative market for gas-chuggers, leaving Detroit's automakers eating dust once again.

An urgent little sprint and his marker is left eating dust.

"You need to make dust or eat dust, and I don't like eating dust," he would say.

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I eat dust.

Suffered on that bus, and ate dust.

Have I ever eaten dust directly out of the bag?

As one headline had it: "Let them eat dust".

But it is not enough for him to assert his own pre‑eminence; his contemporaries – friends as well as enemies – must eat dust in his majestic wake.

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