Words similar to dust

Example sentences for: dust

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When Nikita Sergeevich bragged that the USSR would bury the USA, he meant that technologically and economically the Soviets would leave us in the dust, would be around for our funeral, not that they would put us six feet under.
The EPA Office of Inspector General investigated the issuance of these press releases and concluded that the agency did not have enough data about the range of possible pollutants other than asbestos to make a judgment, lacked public health benchmarks for appropriate levels of asbestos and other pollutants, and had imprecise methods for sampling asbestos in the air; it also noted that more than 25 percent of the bulk dust samples collected before September 18 showed the presence of asbestos above the agency's 1 percent benchmark.
The dust jacket for Toobin's book, A Vast Conspiracy , says it "analyzes the facts ...
Prozac Nation author Elizabeth Wurtzel's marketing strategy works: Critics heap attention on the dust jacket photo of Wurtzel topless and flipping her middle finger.
--a huge ball of dust drifting and whirlingas the light from burnt-out stars races over it.