List of synonyms from "dust ruffle" to synonyms from "dutch-courage"


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Definition of the day : « dusting »

  • noun defeat
Example sentences :
  • The first task that was set her was that of sweeping and dusting a parlor.
  • Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
  • It was the dusting of the furniture in the parlour behind the shop.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • She was now walking to and fro, putting the arm-chairs in order, and dusting their backs.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • Levasseur dashed one hand against the other, as if dusting them.
  • Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
  • It contained sulfa pills, powder for dusting, and other medicines.
  • Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery
  • Then the something on the floor started moving and dusting itself off.
  • Extract from : « FreeChildrenStories.com Collection » by Daniel Errico
  • Daniel was dusting some music at the end of the piano as he came in.
  • Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
  • The little girl eyes over their dusting of freckles slitted.
  • Extract from : « The Cuckoo Clock » by Wesley Barefoot
  • Lydia did no dusting of tables or arranging of flowers in a vase.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • The children, he said, had fallen into the habit of calling it "dusting papa off."
  • Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine