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dust cloud

n. a cloud of dust suspended in the air

Usage examples of "dust cloud".

She marked the dust cloud, but at this angle it was lost behind the hills.

It was fantastic, breathtaking, and all because I was seeing it on foot, not riding in the dust cloud of a line of trucks.

There, in the early afternoon, came a rover caravan, churning up a small dust cloud and moving slowly.

It was near sunset now, the sun pouring through a gap between Pavonis and the dust cloud, illuminating the clouds from below in a garish display of violent martian tones, casting a hellish light over the milling scene.

The late sun shone through the dust cloud, making the white dust rosy.

Where, earlier, one saw a red-dust cloud bursting here and there at intervals, on this day there was always a billowing mass of lethal vapor in the air.

She found a narrow space between two great roots and crammed herself into it, peering over the buttress beside her and out toward the approaching dust cloud.

She jumped down in the dust cloud and ran to embrace him, reaching up to throw her arms around his neck so that the hard edge of her cuirass dug into his ribs.

Tom straightened up, glanced out across the veld and spotted the distant dust cloud raised by flying hoofs.

He was seeing the end of a battle that must have run without cessation for days - a battle that had ensured the survival of the refugeesand this is why that dust cloud was so slow to approach.

The camera now showed a ground-level view of the dust cloud as it swirled toward us.