Sentence examples for powdery dust from inspiring English sources

Shortly after, arcing white comets with powdery dust tails filled the space between the two lines.

On the Moon, regolith occurs as a mixture of powdery dust and broken rock.

At one point we took a walk around the neighborhood, trudging through the powdery dust in 126 degree heat.

Old swatches of keffiyeh fabric are still stretched out upon these once industrious machines - and underneath the powdery dust, the distinctive pattern so symbolic of the Palestinian national cause has all but faded away.

Some birds, too, cause more problems than others, especially the "powder down" ones — cockatiels, cockatoos, African grays and pigeons — that produce large amounts of white powdery dust every day.

South Carolina is probably not the ideal state in which to be accused of breaking the matrimonial bonds, then smashing them and jumping up and down on them until they're just a pile of marital powdery dust.

It's just a question of mixing ricotta, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, eggs and flour in a bowl (by hand) and then frying rounded teaspoonfuls of the batter in just under an inch of oil until you have some light, small, vaguely ball-shaped fritters that need no more than a powdery dusting with confectioners' sugar.

The effects on heritage items can vary from a light powdery dusting to severe staining, weakening and disintegration of substrate material.

In the envelope and the bag was a clumpy, powdery gray dust -- dust that used to be the south tower of the World Trade Center, and that coated me and thousands of others with a force that pushed it deep into pockets, briefcases, ears and lungs on Sept. 11, 2001.

Powdery grey dust smothers the concrete floors.

"My heart is bleeding," said Salman Jahalin, 28, his corduroys covered with the hilltop's powdery white dust.