Sentence examples for were dust from inspiring English sources
verb
To remove dust from.
- The cleaning lady needs a stool to dust the cupboard.
Enjoyable, intoxicating even, but if I did not slow things down in a hurry, my resolutions were dust.
The themes of Run's collections were quirky, verging on twee; one season, the muses were dust bunnies.
More insidious were dust clouds that stilled the bells, stopped the clocks, silenced the organ and turned every surface gray.
The chorus of the title track begins, "You are part of an ancient race/With bare feet and blank dreams/You were dust, you will be dust".
When asked, "What don't you do well?" she gasped, then brushed us off with three sharp whisks to the air as if we were dust.
They were dust-bowl types who brought the accordion, which fit into their luggage.
The carts were dust-covered, it said, and the outside of a needle disposal container on two of the carts was "soiled with dried blood".
Their black glass eyes were dusted.
Old folk were dusting porches with brooms of bound thatch.
Survivors came forward; old newspapers were dusted off and read.
