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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.
                The Cryptogram: A Story of Northwest Canada
                2
                By the time Tanis arrived, everyone was gagging in the powdery atmosphere.
                Dragons of autumn twilight
                3
                His grip was short, limp, and powdery with some sort of talcum.
                11/22/63
                4
                Scarza merely tramped on, uncomplaining, brushing the powdery layer from his arms.
                Blood and Bone
                5
                The sand was soft and powdery, very tiring to his naked feet.
                A Voyage to Arcturus
                6
                But Vasili Andreevich did not stop, but disappeared amid the powdery snow.
                Master and Man
                7
                Her great fore-pads smote twice on the powdery snow, then were still.
                Fort Amity
                8
                Then grind everything together in a spice or coffee grinder until powdery.
                Food matters: a guide to conscious eating with more than 75 reci...
                9
                The snow is very powdery and very dry when it's that cold.
                Rock and Ice Magazine
                10
                With that wind and that fine, powdery frost went no apparent clouds.
                Hills and the Sea
                11
                It was a gentle slope with pretty tight gates and powdery snow.
                Crazy for the storm: a memoir of survival
                12
                I lay there inhaling the powdery, foreign scents of an unknown bed.
                Pandemonium
                13
                Spraying for powdery mildew and botrytis is continuing as harvesting gets nearer.
                Radio NZ
                14
                The thick, white powdery flakes were drifting down with no particular purpose.
                Beautiful creatures
                15
                The wagon bumped along and kicked up a haze of powdery dust.
                Servant of a dark god
                16
                There were footprints in the powdery dust-twosets, one big, one small.
                The waste lands
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                United States of America
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                United Kingdom
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