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How to use dusty in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Dusty means covered with dust. Example: “The air in the old mine was unwholesomely damp and dusty.”

Examples of dusty by meaning

adjectiveCovered with dust.

  • a dusty carpet
  • On a cold morning in Abilene, Texas, a column of 18-wheelers crawls down bumpy, waterlogged roads, past cattle grazing on dusty shrubs.2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time

adjectiveGrey or greyish.

  • a dusty peach color

adjectiveUgly, unwell, inadequate, bad.

  • White?" And she replied "Not so dusty - quite well brushed."1967, “Jewish Affairs”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 22, page 30
  • You're not so dusty yourself!"2011, Media Lawson-Butler, Thistle in the Wind, page 205

nounA medium-brown color.

  • The orange shades ranged from brilliant to soft; pinks from delicate little-girl hues to strong dusties; yellows were soft buttermilks to ochre; reds ran from scarlets to bloods;1973, Vogue - Volume 162, page 210
  • I chose small floral prints for the garden area and broke them into lights, mediums, dark mediums, and darks, in other words, pastels, dusties, dark dusties, and jewel tones (refer to the Montano Color chart, page 35).2016, Judith Baker Montano, Judith Baker Montano's Essential Stitch Guide, page 156

nounAn old bottle of spirits that has been kept for a long time.

  • But dusties can still be found.2018, Carlo DeVito, Big Whiskey, page 165

nounA miller (from the image of millers being covered in flour dust).

  • We give this hint as an inducement to the wives and as a warning to the dusties.1917, The American Miller and Processor, page 394

nounA supply petty officer.

  • The mess was so overcrowded that hammock-slinging space became the perks of the badgemen the “jack-dusties” invariably slept in their store-rooms and offices.1982, Ray Sturtivant, Fleet Air Arm at War, page 14
  • The 'Dusties' — supply Petty Officers were frantically pumping out the kit, gas masks, kit bags, blankets, army boots, toilet bags, socks, underclothes.1992, J. W. MacKintosh, The Hunts and the Hunted, page 10
  • From time to time I'd get up to the dusties' mess for this or that reason, and became known to the writers and dusties up there.2005, Dave Diss, Dizzy, page 167

nounA recording of music from another era, especially R&B; an oldie.

  • In Los Angeles, listeners can tune in to KACE, the "dusties" station that plays music from the '50s, '60s and '70s;1995 June 3, Janine McAdams, “On the Radio”, in Billboard, volume 107, number 22, page 34
  • WGCI 1390 - AM was previously known for playing R & B oldies known as "dusties".1999, Ed Hogan, Gospel Synergy Magazine - Volume 1, Issue 3, page 10
  • nice old scratchy records that had been played over and over again, I called them "dusty records," reasoning that it was the dust in the grooves from being around so long that made them crackle.2009 February 1, Herb Kent, David Smallwood, Mayor Richard M. Daley, The Cool Gent: The Nine Lives of Radio Legend Herb Kent, Chicago...

More sentences with dusty

  • The air in the old mine was unwholesomely damp and dusty.From the entry unwholesomely
  • Dusty left the taproom of the tavern and wandered into the small arcade in back.From the entry taproom
  • The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.From the entry tome
  • He refused to come out of his dusty book-ridden room.From the entry book-ridden
  • Deep inside, my heart longed for the sweet, dusty orange delight of a Wotsit.2023, L.M. Chilton [pseudonym; Luke Chilton], chapter 12, in Don’t Swipe Right, London: Head of Zeus, →ISBN. From the entry wotsit
  • A dusty bottle of multipurpose cleaning spray, blue roll, a sad grey J-cloth, furniture polish.2023, Alice Slater, Death of a Bookseller. From the entry blue roll
  • The sun was setting, and the Eiffel Tower was a dusty rose in the distance.2014, Harper Lin, Croissant Murder, unnumbered page. From the entry dusty rose
  • She drew her flowers together and put them into the dusty little jhola she carried.2014 January 1, Anjana Basu, In the Shadow of the Leaves, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), →ISBN, page 131. From the entry jhola
  • You can't afford to just sit there on your rusty dusty feeling sorry for yourself.2014, James Willis, Faith Made Easy. From the entry rusty dusty
  • The patch of wall where it had been hanging a hurtful rectangle of dusty starkness.2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage (2010), page 226. From the entry starkness
  • Leave these ladies at rest on their big fat rusty dusties?2006, Mo Foster, A Blues for Shindig, page 70. From the entry rusty dusty
  • If that's all they wanted, they could just hit the dusty trail.2005, Cleo Hicks Williams, Gratitude for Shoes: Growing Up Poor in the Smokies, page 366. From the entry Roman hands and Russian fingers
  • Let's get off the floating chopper.” “He's not a dusty head.2004 October 30, Jackson Publick & Doc Hammer, “Return to Spider-Skull Island” (13:17 from the start), in The Venture Bros., season 1…. From the entry hoverbike
  • He heard a light wagonet approach, the nimble trot of hooves on the dusty street.2002, Josepth Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, The Radetsky March, Folio Society, published 2015, page 158. From the entry wagonet
  • There are the Evilistas that believe the only good vampire is a dusty vampire.2002 December 3, Juleen, “Re: Buffy fan subgroups”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet). From the entry evilista
  • Greasing the equipment was one of the dustiest, dirtiest, knuckle-bangingest jobs on the farm.1999, Will Weaver, Farm Team, page 221. From the entry bangingest
  • Some magical powers remain in the dusty dung of the bat.1986, Steven Estvanki, James Marciniak, Steven Marciniak, Captif d’Yvoire and Beyond the Silvered Pane (Tunnels and Trolls), Ealing…. From the entry spell casting
  • The wizard gazed at him conjecturingly, as if he were a riddle on some dusty parchment.1979, Patricia A. McKillip, Riddle of Stars, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., page 434. From the entry conjecturingly
  • In August the cicadas chorused, and the dusty olive trees drowsed in the sun.1973 July, Melville Bell Grosvenor, “Homeward with Ulysses”, in Melville Bell Grosvenor, editor, National Geographic, volume 144, number…. From the entry drowse
  • A poor man’s disease, silicosis hits miners and other workers in dusty places.1948 October 11, “For Stiffened Lungs”, in Time. From the entry dust-ridden
  • Over each mound there hung a dusty golden shimmer of bees.1922, Katherine Anne Porter, “María Concepción”, in Flowering Judas and Other Stories, New York: The Modern Library, published 1940, page 6. From the entry shimmer
  • The battlefield—an undulating, parched, and dusty expanse—is lying under the sultry sun of a July afternoon.1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part third, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, Act I, scene iii…. From the entry sultry
  • L Beneath love's heavy weight my falt'ring soul Plods, like the packman, o'er life's dusty road.1900, Various, Japanese Literature. From the entry packman
  • A dusty collection of old selves, old interests, old compulsions, piled on top of each other like geological strata.2025 June 17, Joan Westenberg, “I Deleted My Second Brain”, in A newsletter about tech + philosophy, archived from the original on 28 Jun…. From the entry second brain
  • Down a dusty alley in a car, young men cast off their true identities as they enter this apartment.2024 September 25, CBS Evening News, spoken by Debora Patta, New York, via CBS. From the entry hustle kingdom

Meaning of dusty

  1. adjective Covered with dust.
  2. adjective Powdery and resembling dust.
  3. adjective Grey or greyish.

Full definition of dusty

Questions about dusty in a sentence

How do you use dusty in a sentence?
Dusty is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The air in the old mine was unwholesomely damp and dusty.”
What is a short sentence with dusty?
“a dusty carpet”
What does dusty mean?
Dusty means covered with dust.

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