Dust is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like particulate or smear. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dust in a sentence
Related words
Dust meaning
- Fine particles.
- Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
Synonyms of Dust
Dust vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Dust
- The main meaning on this page is: Fine particles. | Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc. | Fine particles.
- Useful related words include: particulate, smear, make clean, clean.
- Possible Dutch translations are: stof.
- In the example corpus, dust often appears in combinations such as: the dust, dust and, and dust.
Context around Dust
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 13 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dust
- In this selection, "dust" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wood, solids, little, storms, particles and sand stand out and add context to how "dust" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include turning to dust and my, 50m of dust protection, dust storms, dust devil and dust bowl. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dust" sits close to words such as coordinator, trials and resolve, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dust
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Its dust bin captures up to 99 per cent of dust particles and keeps them secure. (16 words)
When in doubt, we looked at the irrefutable evidence found within their dust bins and the auto-empty dock dust bags. (21 words)
In the future, the researchers plan to study how different types of dust traps react differently to radiation and moving dust flows. (22 words)
Being able to do so in a safe board game environment helps me empathize with people like Thomas Jefferson and Sam Altman without my eyes turning to dust and my face turning to dust and my hands turning to dust and my legs turning to dust. (46 words)
The third digit is the number that indicates how good it is at protecting against small solids (dust/sand etc), with a maximum rating of 6. This ranges from no protection at all, through small screws, a little dust or all dust. (42 words)
The docking station is equipped with a large dust bag that can hold up to seven weeks’ worth of dust and debris which means you can enjoy weeks of hassle-free cleaning without the need for constant maintenance. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Being able to do so in a safe board game environment helps me empathize with people like Thomas Jefferson and Sam Altman without my eyes turning to dust and my face turning to dust and my hands turning to dust and my legs turning to dust.
The third digit is the number that indicates how good it is at protecting against small solids (dust/sand etc), with a maximum rating of 6. This ranges from no protection at all, through small screws, a little dust or all dust.
In comparison, the significantly smaller dust devils that twist across the deserts during the summer lift about three times as much dust, thus having a greater combined impact on the dust content of the atmosphere.
Clean air ducts mean less dust and debris in your home and air, because ductwork is often the pathway for dust and biological contaminants.
If you need something simple that will cover a large amount of space, this polythene dust roll offers around 2 x 50m of dust protection.
If you want an actual impact on your gameplay, get “Bust the Dust” for vacuuming (and one of the best ways to earn quick cash in the game – dust bunnies).
The HSE investigation found a significant build-up of wood dust and that local exhaust ventilation systems, provided to capture wood dust and protect employees, had not been thoroughly examined and tested.
The proposed rule permits work in dangerous levels of dust "temporarily" while mine operators take corrective action to get dust down to the legal limit.
These heavy elements are what cosmic dust is made of, and it is, therefore, difficult to explain the origins of the dust without attributing some of it to supernovae.
To adapt to the notorious dust storms on Mars, Zhurong’s solar panels have been designed like butterfly wings so dust could be blown away.
In the future, the researchers plan to study how different types of dust traps react differently to radiation and moving dust flows.
Its dust bin captures up to 99 per cent of dust particles and keeps them secure.
So, it is vital we have an accurate understanding of where dust emissions are coming from, in what quantities, how dust is transported across the planet and where it ends up.
The docking station is equipped with a large dust bag that can hold up to seven weeks’ worth of dust and debris which means you can enjoy weeks of hassle-free cleaning without the need for constant maintenance.
When in doubt, we looked at the irrefutable evidence found within their dust bins and the auto-empty dock dust bags.
Fabiana Portoni, the museum's preventive conservator and dust expert, said that the accumulation of dust particles on the museum's ancient artefacts can cause long-term damage.
High levels of dust in northwest Victoria would move south across the state and whip up dust storms, which were due to reach Melbourne late on Saturday morning.
In The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, D. Miall Edwards writes: “Shimei ‘cursed’ David and ‘threw stones at him, and cast dust,’ literally, ‘dusted (him) with dust’ (2 Samuel 16:13).
It will soon be Ash Wednesday when we hear “Remember man thou are dust and unto dust thou shall return” – the Church’s way of recalling us to our senses and to the reality of life’s trajectory.
Residents wear face masks to protect themselves from the Saharan dust clouds covering Dakar, Senegal, on February 25. N95 masks and even surgical masks can help protect people from getting sick from the dust.
Phrases with dust
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with dust
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the dust 55×
- dust and 30×
- and dust 18×
- of dust 17×
- to dust 11×
- dust storms 11×
- dust is 9×
- dust in 9×
- dust devil 7×
- dust particles 6×