Dust

There is so much dust released during the process of laying ballast that the trackside operator wears a full face mask with respirator.

Astronomers have previously considered that dust produced by the star was obscuring it, causing the steep decline in brightness.

to touch a dust of England’s ground

[…]once they start school, I mean you can do a room out one day, the next day it only needs a dust, doesn’t it?

But I should turn mine ears and hear The moanings of the homeless sea, ⁠The sound of streams that swift or slow ⁠Draw down Æonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be; […]

For now shall I sleep in the dust.

For I will leave my relics in your land, / And you may carve a shrine about my dust, / And burn a fragrant lamp before my bones, / When I am gather’d to the glorious saints.

And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust.

[God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust.

‘And what do you ask for it?’ ‘Fifteen thousand dollars.’ ‘I’ll take it.’ ‘Then down with the dust.’

to raise, or kick up, a dust

The cleaning lady needs a stool to dust the cupboard.

There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

Dusting always makes me cough.

The mother dusted her baby’s bum with talcum powder.

He added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can dust. I’d like to talk to you a little, soldier.’

good Powder differs from bad […]in having more Peter and less Coal; and lastly, in the well dusting of it

Kyle Reese: You have to be careful because the [Hunter-Killer robots] use infrared. They’re not too bright. John taught us ways to dust them.