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Meanings of powdery in English
Consisting of fine particles.
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Usage of powdery in English
1
We broke through the crust and floundered in soft and powdery snow.
2
By the time Tanis arrived, everyone was gagging in the powdery atmosphere.
3
His grip was short, limp, and powdery with some sort of talcum.
4
Scarza merely tramped on, uncomplaining, brushing the powdery layer from his arms.
5
The sand was soft and powdery, very tiring to his naked feet.
6
But Vasili Andreevich did not stop, but disappeared amid the powdery snow.
7
Her great fore-pads smote twice on the powdery snow, then were still.
8
Then grind everything together in a spice or coffee grinder until powdery.
9
The snow is very powdery and very dry when it's that cold.
10
With that wind and that fine, powdery frost went no apparent clouds.
11
It was a gentle slope with pretty tight gates and powdery snow.
12
I lay there inhaling the powdery, foreign scents of an unknown bed.
13
Spraying for powdery mildew and botrytis is continuing as harvesting gets nearer.
14
The thick, white powdery flakes were drifting down with no particular purpose.
15
The wagon bumped along and kicked up a haze of powdery dust.
16
There were footprints in the powdery dust-twosets, one big, one small.
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Powdery through the time
Powdery across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common