Sentence examples for mounds of dust from inspiring English sources

As evidence, the military this month showed off the once-busy, mile-long marketplace here, captured from the militants and pulverized to bits of concrete and mounds of dust.

And we still feel the tumult and challenge in the works themselves — beginning with the youthful rush of invention in the early novels, like "Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nicklebyby" and "Barnaby Rudge," and ending with the portentous darkness, mounds of dust and tangled webs of "Our Mutual Friend" — an exhilarating enterprise, worthy of the celebration offered here.

For Kapoor, the maid of Orleans is not the immaculate gilded warrior you see in the Rue de Rivoli: all that's left of her is two knobbly coral reefs of red rubble that could be her chopped-off limbs, plus some mounds of dust that could have once been her breasts.

The walls crumbled into a mound of dust nearly seven feet high.

The boy looked at his feet, and kicked together a small mound of dust on the cement floor while his father and the blind man spoke.

To counter the objection that cremation would interfere with resurrection, the Reverend O. B. Frothingham assured Americans that "to recover a shape from a heap of ashes can be no more difficult than to recover it from a mound of dust".

But trust me, that heaping mound of dust and dead bug-encrusted "I'm going to do something with these someday, I swear" papers piled under your bedroom window?

The next day I paddled out through forest that had been returned to mounds of elemental dust.

Black and gray are the colors, lightened only by small mounds of red dust at the base of some of the charred trunks -- the leavings of bark beetles -- and flecks of green where new growth pokes above the ash.

Crystallised engines displayed alongside polystyrene sculptures splattered with calf brain, a machine which drops vandalised coins to the floor, a pile of dust in one corner, and a mound of blue contact lenses in another.

Men climbed the mounds of rubble, searching.