What is "dustlike"

Usage examples of "dustlike".

The dustlike sand had accumulated in a heavy layer only at the threshold where the wind had driven it through the open hatch door.

He likes to sleep on the floor, and his prison-issue clothing is always covered with gray dustlike dust on the wings of a moth.

Energy rushed out of me, swirled within the focusing confines of the circle I had drawn, and then rushed downward into the compass with a visible shimmer of silver, dustlike motes.

Preceptor of the Genidian Knights was in high spirits as he reined in his horse, swirling up a huge billow of the dustlike snow.

The dustlike motes spread on air currents, stuck to clothes and hair and even skin.

Scanner and Raze with buckets of the fine, dustlike sand as the creature swiftly dug its way back out of sight.

A fine dustlike film rose in the air, though there was a difference in the shading of colors as the motes gathered into a multicolored cloud that formed above the severed head and began to spin.

A few black rocks poked out of the dustlike islands, but offered no shelter from the heat or the demon worms.

She dipped into the little bag of dustlike granules she had found in his laboratory, and softly blew on her fingertips, sending the dust to settle over him in a powdery cloud.

The essence of this view rests upon the fact previously noted that in the realm of the fixed stars there are many faintly shining aggregations of matter which are evidently not solid after the manner of the bodies in our solar system, but are in the state where their substances are in the condition of dustlike particles, as are the bits of carbon in flame or the elements which compose the atmosphere.

Though the greater part of these distant luminous masses are evidently in the state of aggregation displayed by our own sun, many of them retain more or less of that vaporous, it may be dustlike, character which we suppose to have been the ancient state of all the matter in the universe.

The evidence goes to show, however, that the matter is in a dustlike or vaporous condition, and that the weight of these bodies is relatively very small.

If this view be correct, it seems likely that we may look to great volcanic explosions as a source whence the dustlike particles which people the celestial spaces may have come.

He leaned his head against the glass and watched the dry dustlike snow.

Drawers contained sheets of fine paper coated with dustlike abrasives.