Sentence examples similar to palls of dust from inspiring English sources

A pall of dust and smoke was rising.

Everywhere at the epicentre, on everything and everybody, a thick pall of dust.

As Riyadh baked in triple-digit heat under a pall of dust, American and Saudi flags flew from light poles.

"There was a pall of dust and smoke," Mr. Nance recalled in a 2001 interview with WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, Va.

A thin pall of dust covers every surface, leaving the roadside shrubs more grey than green.Until recently these were all signs of prosperity.

Over Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, we enter a pall of dust, and the plane bounces and sways before landing.

A pall of dust hung over Baghdad, grounding the helicopters that were to take the president and his entourage into the city itself, where a news conference with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki had been scheduled.

The monster eruption of the Indonesian volcano Tambora in 1815 cast a pall of dust over the world; the resulting global chill destroyed crops and brought on a famine that lasted nearly two years.

Scientists have suggested that once every 10 million years or so a truly colossal object from space cuts through the atmosphere and slams into Earth, sending up a global pall of dust that blots out the Sun, alters the climate and changes the course of evolution by killing off many plant and animal species.

Yet the production of aggregates cannot easily be banished to rural, mountainous areas where there is no one to bother with a quarry's constant pall of dust and rolling thunder of breaking rocks.

She waved across the seemingly endless expanse of the township, blanketed under a pall of yellow dust.