dust storm
or dust·storm
an occurrence of strong winds permeating the air with fine particles of dust over an extensive area of normally arable land during a period of drought: It was a time of danger and despair on the prairie, with one dust storm after another.
Origin of dust storm
1- Also called duster.
- Compare black blizzard, sandstorm.
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How to use dust storm in a sentence
The PUMAs were sort of lost in the pixie dust storm of the Obama election.
"A dust-storm, probably," replied the colonel, as the weather had been dry and parching hot for several weeks past.
A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral | John Dunloe CarteretA dust-storm was raging, and we had some difficulty in finding our way through the network of trenches.
War in the Garden of Eden | Kermit RooseveltIt had been blowing a dust-storm all day, and on that account I hardly expected Gilmour, but now there was no doubt.
James Gilmour of Mongolia | James GilmourAll that night a dust storm raged, succeeded next morning by torrential rain.
Across the Prairie in a Motor Caravan | Frances Halton Eva Hasell
It was only the other day, in a dust-storm away back near the Darling, as bad a one as ever I was out in.
Stingaree | E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
British Dictionary definitions for dust storm
a windstorm that whips up clouds of dust
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