Sentence examples for over the dust from inspiring English sources

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It's been a crazy, wild, bucking bronco of a day, and though it's now officially over, the dust continues to settle.

"We simply don't want to rake over the dust and ashes of the past".

Peggy was back in the Square for the first time since 2013, although she only stuck around long enough to offer Dot some religious guidance, and run a finger over the dust which had accumulated on the Old Vic's bar.

The whole day had been hot, there was a thunderstorm gathering somewhere, but only a small cloud had sent a sprinkle over the dust of the road and the juicy leaves.

Along this particular stretch of the Via, it was a rocky, two-foot-wide trail with sparse trees on either side and the odd dab of color from some thin-stalked wildflowers bobbing over the dust.

This sounds like good English, while Pevear and Volokhonsky's version, with its hiccupped run-on, does not: "The whole day had been hot, there was a thunderstorm gathering somewhere, but only a small cloud had sent a sprinkle over the dust of the road and the juicy leaves".

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It smells of dust, dry built-up-over-the-years dust.

The strike may officially be over, but the dust will not settle any time soon.

When all was over and the dust cloud had lifted, the spectacle was too dreadful to describe.

Now it's over and the dust has settled.

On a recent state visit to Singapore, President Obama admitted that he expects the TPP to go through "after the election is over and the dust settles".

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