Sentence examples for walls of dust from inspiring English sources

Although use of the term often brings smirks, Mr. Cerveny said the walls of dust could have serious consequences, toppling power lines and causing huge traffic accidents.

During Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign, the French soldiers had a hard time with the khamsin wind: when the storm appeared "as a blood-stint in the distant sky", the natives went to take cover, while the French "did not react until it was too late, then choked and fainted in the blinding, suffocating walls of dust".

"There's usually a wall of dust from all the minibuses".

Once or twice a year sand-bearing winds, or khamsin, raise a wall of dust some 5,000 feet (1,500 metres) high, which darkens the sky.

Brian Dawson, owner of All Tech Appliance Service in Portland, Ore., said he frequently comes across refrigerator coils so dirty that the compressor fan is chugging to pull fresh air past a wall of dust and pet hair.

Known as "haboobs," the storms are characterized by strong winds and a wall of dust that can be thousands of feet high, grounding planes, blowing away barns and knocking out power to major cities like Phoenix.

Visitors walking between the newly cleaned stones and the latex wall of dust this summer will be "walking between the layers of history", said the artist, whose background is in architectural conservation.

A giant wall of dust rolled through the Phoenix area on Monday, turning the sky brown and delaying some airline flights.

That storm brought a mile-high wall of dust that halted airline flights, knocked out power for hundreds of people and turned swimming pools into mud pits.

PHOENIX -- A giant wall of dust rolled through the Phoenix area on Monday, turning the sky brown, creating dangerous driving conditions and delaying some airline flights.

A fierce wind whipped up walls of gray dust while hundreds of opportunistic taxis and buses waited for fleeing refugees.