Sentence examples for tons of dust from inspiring English sources
The cloud contains many tons of dust.
It shrouded the atmosphere with 200 million tons of dust, gas and ash, blocking the sun.
Somewhere near 100 million tons of dust each year is raised from Africa and is blown westward.
By some estimates, Earth picks up on the order of 1,000 tons of dust every year.
In fact, as much as 40,000 tons of dust from space reaches the ground every year.
Even on an average day, Earth's atmosphere is bombarded with more than 80 tons of dust grains, mostly asteroidal and cometary debris.
About a hundred tons of dust- and sand-size space rock bombards our atmosphere daily, and bolides — NEOs that catch fire upon entering the atmosphere — have been implicated in everything from the Chicago Fire of 1871 to the wrathful "brimstone and fire" visited upon Sodom and Gomorrah.
About a hundred tons of dust- and sand-size space rock bombards our atmosphere daily, and bolides NEOs that catch fire upon entering the atmosphere have been implicated in everything from the Chicago Fire of 1871 to the wrathful "brimstone and fire" visited upon Sodom and Gomorrah.
Towards the close of this collection we're told that a ton of dust, generated by burned-out meteorites, falls like snow on to our planet every hour.
It is impossible to say how many people have been sickened by what Hurricane Sandy left behind: mold from damp drywall; spills from oil tanks; sewage from floodwater and unflushable toilets; tons upon tons of debris and dust.
In the accident, about 50 tons of radioactive dust and debris was carried by winds and rain to virtually every country in the Northern Hemisphere, but the worst contamination was in the areas near the zone, especially southern Belarus.
