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Examples
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It was four in the afternoon, and the bar was empty except for the skinny, tattooed girl bartender on whom James had a crush and a couple of dusty-looking alcoholics propped on opposing barstools.
The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010
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I look up to see some dusty-looking man staring down at me.
Monster Truck 2010
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They look bluish in the pictures because of the flash, but in real life they are a dusty-looking matte black with no markings, fringes, spots, or variance--almost like they are made, body and wings, from expensive black velvet.
Can Anyone Help Identify This Bug? Becca 2009
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There were even a couple of dusty-looking hats of a style that folks hadn't worn for nearly a hundred years.
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Flambeau, who was a friend of Angus, received him in a rococo artistic den behind his office, of which the ornaments were sabres, harquebuses, Eastern curiosities, flasks of Italian wine, savage cooking-pots, a plumy Persian cat, and a small dusty-looking
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He was dusty-looking and in a frayed coat, evidently a common messenger.
The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003
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He was dusty-looking and in a frayed coat, evidently a common messenger.
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He was dusty-looking and in a frayed coat, evidently a common messenger.
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Flambeau, who was a friend of Angus, received him in a rococo artistic den behind his office, of which the ornaments were sabres, harquebuses, Eastern curiosities, flasks of Italian wine, savage cooking-pots, a plumy Persian cat, and a small dusty-looking
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Ryan stood and walked to the sideboard, where he picked up a dusty-looking old book and brought it back to the table.
Ryan Winston, Anne Marie 2002
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