Example Sentences

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The weekend before this race, he had dusted a field of IndyCar drivers on a track used by both classes.

From Slate • May 12, 2020

Cynthia Cruz, 29, went to two tree lots before she selected her 6-foot noble fir that she had dusted with white flocking at Todd’s Christmas Trees in Long Beach.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2018

A few days earlier, a cool rain shower had dusted the earth, but afterward the sun’s rays beat down mercilessly through the blackjack trees.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 1, 2017

We left it, like we left the black smudges on the back door where the police had dusted unsuccessfully for fingerprints.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2014

She had dusted and polished everything with her own hands.

From In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life by Reuter, Fritz