(superl.) Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.
(superl.) Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white.
Example Sentences:
(1) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
(2) In between the two sets, we slip to the Silverlake Lounge ( foldsilverlake.com ), where Silversun Pickups used to play, to listen to Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, a six-piece that meshes folk rock with the Beach Boys with Yes.
(3) As a result of the findings, a further study was undertaken by the same research team to investigate one possible solution to the problem of alcohol consumption at work in a paper-producing factory, predominantly under hot and dusty conditions.
(4) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
(5) Two cases of PAME in children occurring during dusty harmattan period in Northern Nigeria are reported.
(6) In the vast dusty fields and ramshackle towns of Shinyanga the problem is that sex education is minimal.
(7) The patient, a bulldozer-operator, worked in Africa for a long period in extremely dusty conditions without any protection.
(8) "Fisherwomen, who before in a week would get 20 to 30 kilos of shellfish, now take a whole week to get 2 or 3 kilos," says De Alcántara, sitting on a folding metal chair in a dusty meeting hall.
(9) The dusty and impoverished town has few signs of diamond wealth, and the word is that its senior baron recently fled to Maputo to evade Zimbabwe's secret police.
(10) Six years later, as the cultural revolution wreaked havoc, young Xi was dispatched to the dusty, impoverished north-western province of Shaanxi to "learn from the masses".
(11) The results indicated that the manner in which a powder is handled may be as important as material dustiness as measured by a dustiness tester.
(12) dusty atmosphere also influence the tolerance; local state of the tissues.
(13) Politicians who claimed to sense the hand of history on their shoulders got a dusty response from Simon, especially if they did so in verbless sentences.
(14) These results show that antismoking campaigns are important among workers in a dusty work environment.
(15) Thorn says: ‘ I’ve always thought if Dusty’s voice was a colour, it was silver.’ Photograph: Ian Berry Ugh, all the same old words, and they won’t do, will they?
(16) Whether you’re into Dusty’s Deep Cut reggae, minimal electronics, symphonic pop, Texas blues, Japanese noise, power electronics, children’s music, christmas music, Raymond Scott, or Burl Ives, I guarantee there is an online community where you can connect with other enthusiasts to indulge the minute specificity of your tastes.
(17) As a result of Wesker’s affairs, Dusty and Wesker were estranged and Wesker went to live in Wales.
(18) Two kinds of herbivorous rabbit-fish – the dusty spine-foot and its cousin the marbled spine-foot – have destroyed vast swaths of underwater seaweed forests in the eastern Mediterranean, after migrating through the Suez in recent decades.
(19) A few yards in the dusty distance are some small houses; in better days, these served as nurses' quarters.
(20) 766 dockers exposed to dusty materials were examined.
Grey
Definition:
(a.) See Gray (the correct orthography).
Example Sentences:
(1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(2) Ectopias of grey matter are recognised foci of epilepsy, but from an epileptological and a clinical viewpoint little attention has been given to these disorders.
(3) Intracerebral injection of the GABAA agonists muscimol (1 nmol), isoguvacine (1 nmol) or THIP (1, 2 and 4 nmol) in rats with chemitrodes implanted in the dorsal midbrain central grey raised the threshold electrical current for inducing escape behaviour.
(4) A medium amount of degenerated terminals were observed in the nucleus pretectalis anterior (pars reticularis), the dorsal part of the periaqueductal grey at its most rostral levels, the caudolateral parts of the nucleus pretectalis posterior and the nucleus of optic tract, the H field of Forel, parts of the somatic cell columns of the oculomotor nucleus and the trochlear nucleus.
(5) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(6) The novel sampling scheme used in this study is unbiased and was designed so that only a small amount of neocortical grey matter had to be removed.
(7) Frequently it is possible to distinguish between grey and white matter in the basal ganglia.
(8) Life exists in the noisy grey bits between a 'no' and full, enthusiastic consent.
(9) The first eigenvector, when represented by grey scale maps depicting a pair of eyes, reveals that, as average threshold increases, the visual field rises and flattens, like an umbrella that, initially closed, is simultaneously opened and thrust upwards.
(10) It moved new synthetic drugs from a legal grey area to a well-defined and robust regulatory framework.
(11) The shapes of scapulae and basi-occipital bones from three genetically distinct achondroplastic mutants and one osteopetrotic mutant in the mouse (achondroplasia, brachymorphic, stumpy and grey lethal), and appropriate controls, have been compared using Fourier analysis and multivariate statistical techniques.
(12) Repeated analyses of identical tracks across grey level revealed a statistical interaction between grey settings and curvilinear velocity.
(13) From these data, three graphs are derived, including trends in age-standardised rates, age-specific rates centered on birth cohorts and maps plotted in different shades of grey to represent the surfaces defined by the matrix of various age-specific rates.
(14) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(15) Kidneys were approximately double the normal size and were pale tan to grey in color.
(16) The beach curved around us and the sun shone while the rest of the UK shivered under grey skies and sleet.
(17) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(18) Several haematological and biochemical parameters were measured in the erythrocytes of the grey-headed fruit bat.
(19) At autopsy there were scattered purpura on the skin, and the muscles were atrophic and yellowish-grey in color.
(20) The degree of colocalization was lower and more variable in other regions including the ventral and central periaqueductal grey matter and dorsal raphe nucleus.