During the long voyage, the jack-of-the-dust carefully rationed the flour and hardtack so the crew wouldn't run out.

My laptop bit the dust during the presentation, so I had to finish on my phone.

Please put the dust cover back on the turntable after use to keep the record clean.

Before the move, she carefully wrapped the fragile books in dust covers to protect them from scratches.

She kept a small tin of fig-dust on the windowsill and used it to feed her caged canaries whenever they grew restless.

The volunteers handed out dust masks to everyone before the cleanup began.

After sweeping, she reached for the dust busters to clean the crumbs from the couch.

I grabbed the dust buster to clean the crumbs off the couch.

The abandoned farmhouse was wrapped in a dust-coloured haze that dimmed the late afternoon sun.

The magician sprinkled whoofle dust over the sleeping child, and she smiled as if drifting into a pleasant dream.