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Example sentences for "dusts"

Lexicographically close words:
dustless; dustlike; dustman; dustmen; dustpan; dusty; dusun; dutches; dutchie; duteous
  1. He finally comes to the suit of armor, taking it apart, cleans and dusts it, and finally reassembles it.

  2. The cessation of the vital air in the body, and its flight to some other form, sets the life to silence and sink in the original soul; just as the suspension of the blowing winds, sets the flying dusts to rest on the ground.

  3. The fool thought this brittle thing to be the real gem now lying before him, as the ignorant sot believes the sparkling sands to be the dusts of the purest gold.

  4. His pure conscience returned to his mind, and the blaze of his right knowledge, burnt away the dross of his attachment to the hermitage; as a gust of wind drives the dusts from the ground.

  5. It contains in its bowels the great mountains, likening the particles of dust (or rather as the roes of a fish); it covers also the highest mountains, as the lofty sky hides the dusts on earth.

  6. As the dusts cease to fly after the winds are over; so the mind (thought) ceases to move, when the breath is pent up in the heart.

  7. In most families where but one maid is employed the mistress of the house dusts her drawing-room.

  8. If the mistress of the house dusts the chambers, the maid may now wash the dishes; if not, she may scrape them and leave them to soak in warm water while she goes back to her dusting and cleans and arranges the bath-room.

  9. These harmful dusts are by no means confined to factories, mines, quarries, and the like.

  10. Thus the cereal dusts made in the handling and working up of grain into food products occasionally give rise to serious accidents.

  11. Presently the fertilized stigmas wither, and when they have safely escaped the danger of self-fertilization, the pollen hidden under their lobes ripens and dusts afresh the little flies so impatiently awaiting the feast.

  12. Continuing to curve and coil while the bee sucks, it presently dusts him afresh with pollen from the now released anthers.

  13. A newly opened hermaphrodite flower, male on the first day, dusts its visitors as they pass the ripe stamens.

  14. After this, she washes up and puts away the dinner things, sweeps the kitchen, dusts and tidies it, and puts on the kettle for tea.

  15. Hank dusts off the table and puts bottle and glass down.

  16. She dusts a chair and Mrs. Airey sits by the fireside.

  17. He then dusts a little well-dried finely-sifted sand over all the visible surface of the pattern, and of the sand surrounding it; this is done to prevent adhesion when he replaces the frame No.

  18. After spreading the piece upon the table with the grounded side undermost, the paper-stainer dusts the upper surface with finely powdered chalk of Briancon, commonly called talc, and rubs it strongly with the brush.

  19. A child makes the pieces ring, by striking with the handle of the brush, as he dusts them, and then immerses them into the glaze cream; from which tub they are taken out by the enameller, and shaken in the air.

  20. When the table pattern is completed, he dusts it over with sand, and proceeds to another portion of the silk.

  21. He gets up, dusts off his clothes, registers anger and flattens half a dozen of 'em.

  22. He dusts off his sleeve where the Kid had grabbed it to toss him to one side.

  23. Calcium cyanide has replaced the old method of generating the gas by the action of sulphuric acid on potassium cyanide, and is sold in the form of dusts or granules.

  24. Sprays and dusts are of three kinds, and act upon pests accordingly: they are either stomach poisons, or act externally on the animal by actual contact and corrosion, or cause death by fumigation.

  25. The former method is the more usual in this country, but where the water supply is poor dusts tend to take the place of sprays.

  26. Almost no dusts have a bluish cast, there are few blue objects except certain dark steels, the sky never gets very far away from the orange range, though it is green from time to time, and water reflects the sky.

  27. Is that why papa dusts the tables in the bank?

  28. Lena dusts our rooms, doesn't she," was his rather startling counter-question.

  29. After the walls Phyllis dusts the woodwork and goes over it with a clean, damp cloth, not omitting doorknobs, and looking out for finger marks in likely places.

  30. She brushes and wipes off the window casings and gas fixtures, dusts and replaces the furniture, polishes the mirrors, and washes the windows the last thing, provided the sun is not shining on them at this time.

  31. With a brush broom the hunter dusts his snowshoe tracks full as he recedes from the trap until he is off 30 or 40 ft.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dusts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.