Sentence examples for like a dust from inspiring English sources

You feel sadness in your elbows and shoulders while your actual sadness has somehow flown up into the angry dark clouds that now envelope you like a dust storm.

Mission officials ruled out environmental conditions on Mars, like a dust storm, as a cause of the trouble.

It is the fine white powder on the skin of a grape, like a dust that you should wash off.

Fold a piece of waxed paper over the front and back of the book (sort of like a dust jacket) to keep the covers clean.

"So why didn't you leave?" Outside, a phalanx of pigeons had landed in the avenue's concrete median, swirling like a dust storm around an overturned trash can.

Royal Bangs On "Flux Outside" (Glassnote), the third album by Royal Bangs, distortion surrounds the band like a dust cloud — dust kicked up by the pounding, galloping, manic momentum of the songs.

Ahead, the Mesopotamian plain, like a dust-coloured sea, stretches south hundreds of miles.

But when they take to the air, they are transformed, hanging like a dust-spot in the blue summer skies for what seems like hours on end, delivering their extraordinary song.

Ash and soot blew across roadways like a dusting of dirty snow.

One alternative to liquid color is dry pigment, like a dusting of cayenne pepper sprinkled with bits of chive or bell pepper.

His tone, all over the extended range of the horn, is dry and dark, often brusque: he doesn't purr or warble, and he treats vibrato as a special indulgence, like a dusting of shaved truffles.