"dusty" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There were wrought-iron railings on the upper floor windows, and wrought-iron handles on the screens on both floors, all painted the same dusty shade of green.
- Ralph Funicello's austere but remarkably mutable tiered set is a dusty shade of black, while Mark Bennett's music makes sure we hear the chimes at midnight from the beginning.
- We stood in the dusty shade and watched them, with casual skill, latch the Monica D. to the wharf.
- The huge china cabinet was crowded with old patterned bone china; and there were a few huge lamps with dim bulbs beneath dusty shades.
- The sun slid below the mountain peaks that surrounded the mesas on all sides and the sky faded slowly to a dustier shade of blue.
- Red and black pigment at the extremities remains largely unchanged, but on the body, black pigment is diluted to slate and red pigment is diluted to a dustier shade.
- Chiffons are printed with delicate flowers in dusty tone-on-tone shades of sand and rose or old-fashioned ivory and black.
- Lands' End Inc., for instance, knows that many of its customers prefer brighter colors, rather than the dusty shades that now seem popular, said Andrea Sapon, a manager in the brand integrity group of the mail-order clothing company.
- Her mouth was a dusty purple shade.
- Here he lit an oil lamp of antique fashion, with a dusty, painted shade, and left me alone with the dustier volumes and furniture.
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