Example Sentences

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I asked Alex and he suggested “towers of random and dangerous heights, reaching dustily toward the heavens, placed for maximum inconvenience and with no regard for rodent infestation.”

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

Beyond the house, the road meandered upward past more villas, then dustily through a cluster of old cottages around the medieval parish church, which had a distinguished rood screen.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 21, 2019

The filming is tight and even dustily picturesque, giving some scenes a scuffed beauty that’s enhanced by artfully varied camera angles and hovering aerial shots.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2016

Ever and anon a case dustily tagged U. S. v.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was dusk, the snake gleaming dustily in the yellow headlight beams.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols