Example sentences for: dusty

How can you use “dusty” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As you walk along, keep your eyes peeled for unusual hand-painted shop signs, the fretwork of Gothic windows, and dusty treasures in the antiques shop windows.

  • (Or, as Powell would put it about a brilliant acquaintance, "She doesn't know she is female, and if she should glance down in the shower and see a set of balls she would only think, Dear, dear, how dusty things get in New York.

  • When Howard Carter peered through the dusty air of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 and, in his own words, “wonderful things” met his eyes, he confirmed the immeasurable wealth of the Pharaohs, and when the backer of the dig, Lord Carnarvon, died suddenly only a few months later, vox populi blamed it on the curse of the Pharaohs mummy — and Hollywood was quick to feed our fantasies.

  • And then we heard a dusty coot in a cowboy hat in the booth behind us talking about his IPO.

  • There is less rainfall and the rainy season is prone to fail, leaving most of the island parched and dusty.


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