Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling dust.

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  • adjective as fine and powdery as dust

Etymologies

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dust +‎ -like

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Examples

  • A strong headwind can pick up the fine dustlike sand in a blast that is blinding and choking.

    Obama’s Wars Bob Woodward 2010

  • You'll never know if you don't try it for yourself, she thought, then dumped the dustlike flakes into her mouth.

    Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006

  • Early in the formation of the solar system, the interstellar space between the earth and the sun was filled with a lot of dustlike particles.

    The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

  • Early in the formation of the solar system, the interstellar space between the earth and the sun was filled with a lot of dustlike particles.

    The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

  • Their dustlike seeds travel easily on the wind, spreading these plants from island to island.

    The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

  • Their dustlike seeds travel easily on the wind, spreading these plants from island to island.

    The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

  • Their dustlike seeds travel easily on the wind, spreading these plants from island to island.

    The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

  • After the puffball has matured, the contents change into a brown, dustlike mass, and the top falls off; and it is then inedible.

    The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

  • She leaned out of bed, and watched Thistle strew the fine dustlike grains in each shoe.

    The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson 1918

  • After the land is manured and plowed it should be gone over in all directions with a disk and smoothing harrow, until it is of a dustlike fineness.

    Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896

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