dust storm
or dust·storm
an occurrence of strong winds permeating the air with fine particles of dust over an extensive area of normally arable land during a period of drought: It was a time of danger and despair on the prairie, with one dust storm after another.
Origin of dust storm
1- Also called duster.
- Compare black blizzard, sandstorm.
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How to use dust storm in a sentence
Vanheimert had been in many duststorms, but never in such a storm so far from the haunts of men.
Stingaree | E. W. (Ernest William) HornungThe heat was increasing and the desert winds brought the "khamsin" or duststorms.
The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I | Herbert Brayley Collett
British Dictionary definitions for dust storm
a windstorm that whips up clouds of dust
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