adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ground
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Then she noticed faint tyre impressions on the dusty ground and suspicion crept into her mind.
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Their heads drooped, their cars waggled forward, they snuffed hopelessly at the dusty ground .
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He was kneeling on the dusty ground .
road
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He paced the dusty road somewhat nervously, yet hardly able to contain the soaring enthusiasm in his heart.
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We got a ride on a truck that bounced along the dusty road to the village.
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On reaching the crossroads, we moved quickly to the right, and up the very dusty road leading to the village.
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Three or four cars wheezed past us on the dusty road .
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The lorry travelled very slowly on the dusty roads .
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One façade of balconies faced the sea and the other looked down on to tennis courts and the dusty road threading into Limassol.
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The next place had a dusty road , though not much else.
street
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The bearer set off along the wide, dusty street .
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We both walked down the dusty street .
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A small queue formed in the dusty street outside our office doors to ask for the scientist's address.
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The nightclub closed and we all wandered out in the rickety dusty streets .
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The dusty streets , now that the traders had withdrawn from them, seemed to enjoy a silent life of their own.
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The stable next to the redbrick hall on the dusty street directly opposite the Andrew Jackson Hotel.
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Two steely-eyed men face each other on a dusty street , their hands poised above holstered six-shooters.
track
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Corbett and Ranulf followed the dusty track past green hedgerows and up a hill.
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Our two trucks, looking overly complex and vulnerable compared to our Neolithic surroundings, wait alongside the dusty track .
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The run-down villas and cement footpaths give way to dusty tracks and wooden shacks.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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dusty shelves
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a dusty road
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Samandari lives in a small dusty village on the edge of the desert.
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The journal was dusty and beginning to fall apart.
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The road to Bangalore was hot and dusty .
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The room was dark and dusty .
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The shelves are really dusty .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As they hurried down dusty , echoing staircases, Mungo began to wonder whether he would have enough money.
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Games players cleared areas of sand or dusty rubble.
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He merely watched the obscure corners of the busy planet and poked his stubby nose into dusty crannies.
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The dusty reflection reminded him of a painting, the dim figure still as paint.
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The outer door opened, and the dusty moonscape lay before them, glimmering in the earthlight.
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The rising sun slowly turns the drab greys and dull browns of the mountains to patches of pale gold and dusty pinks.
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The walls in the house were dusty pastels.
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They lived in a dusty adobe house along Buckeye Road.