noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
motes of dust/dust motes literary (= small pieces of dust )
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Glittering motes of dust hung in the sunlight.
motes of dust/dust motes literary (= small pieces of dust )
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Glittering motes of dust hung in the sunlight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beauty was communication, each mote of light shaded with one nuance of meaning and each meaning had a colour.
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Booth agreed that there was a mote in the eye of ministerial beholders preventing them reading the timetable properly.
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But this has led anthropologists to exaggerate the motes of racial difference and to ignore the beams of similarity.
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I completed tidying the loft, sneezing a few times as the golden space filled with motes of shining dust.
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It is hardly necessary to dignify that vile canard by saying there is not a mote of truth to it.
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No matter how small, these motes of humanity following our orders are not to be sacrificed lightly.
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Shame filled the air like motes of dust.
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She screamed, half terrified, half ecstatic, feeling like a mote of dust tossed on an endless ocean.