How to Use dust devil in a Sentence

dust devil

noun
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  • The weather was strange, with storm clouds to the east, but at a far distance, and even a few dust devils, far to the north.
    — Idaho Statesman, 2 Mar. 2016
  • Wiles, who is 17, didn't hesitate to get Zoya free of the dust devil.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
  • Then, last spring, like a dust devil of bad luck, Sykes’ life shattered.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2021
  • Tim and Aymeric point out how the dust devil makes the movement of the air visible.
    — Dava Sobel, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2011
  • As a dust devil whirled, Michelle Binion, 56, marveled at the rupture caused by the first quake.
    — Giulia McDonnell Nieto Del Rio, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
  • Aside from that, NASA can merely wait and hope that a dust devil sweeps over the lander and cleans its panels.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The dust devil blows off the catcher’s hat as the umpire wraps him in his arms and hurriedly moves him away from home plate.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 15 May 2023
  • Dark streaks near the lander came from dust devils that moved over it in February.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Oct. 2019
  • While tornados form from clouds and extend to the ground, a dust devil starts from a whirlwind at ground level.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The dust devil, a tiny little low pressure system, forms as a result.
    — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 8 May 2018
  • In the midst of the windy commotion, Percy managed to do something historic: capture the sound of a Martian dust devil for the first time.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2022
  • In a matter of seconds, 7-year-old Bauer Zoya, a catcher, was caught up in a dust devil, the outlets reported.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • Weaver guessed that the dust devil lasted about two minutes, which is typical.
    — Allie Caren, Washington Post, 29 May 2018
  • The sound of a passing dust devil was recorded on Mars, where a four-hour marsquake revealed that shear waves move faster in the planet’s southern highlands.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Broome now lives in Florida and captured the video showing a small – but fierce – dust devil whipping up on home plate just as a child was ready to swing his bat.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 15 May 2023
  • Check out this impressive dust devil that happened in Japan.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2021
  • There would be slap-you-in-the-face winds, zap-you-dry sunrays, freeze-your-teeth temperature drops, and clouds that would swirl like cartoon dust devils.
    — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2023
  • But before leaving the lowlands behind, on sol 1,597, the rover captured stop-motion video of dust devils streaking across the plains of Gale Crater.
    — Avi Selk, Houston Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The spacecraft could prove lucky if a dust devil — a miniature whirlwind swirling along the Martian landscape — passes over and blows the dust off the solar panels.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter clued scientists in to a 12-mile-high dust devil, a version of which washes over you in the text.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Zoya's father poured water on his son shortly after he was pulled out of the dust devil, according to WJXT.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • As the smoking ceremony began, recalls Jason Kelly, a willy willy (dust devil) swept from the desert and across the casket.
    — David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Named after a real town with a population of 134, the track spirals in a dust devil of isolation and identity.
    — Lior Phillips, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Spirit found rocks suggestive of hot springs, photographed a dust devil, and scaled a Martian mountain before becoming trapped in loose sands.
    — Dylan Moriarty, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2021
  • That direction is northwest to southeast — the same direction as dust devil streaks visible on the surface from orbit.
    — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2018
  • Even after InSight falls silent, there will remain a possibility that a passing dust devil could sweep the solar panels and the spacecraft could revive.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • Mars has seasonal weather patterns called dust devils that could clear that dust away, but those won't begin until November — by which point, the 45 days of active outreach will have ended.
    — Meghan Bartels, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2018
  • The occasional dust devil would drift through the site, completing the post-apocalyptic rave aesthetic.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Just last week, scientists revealed that InSight scored another first, capturing a Martian dust devil not just in pictures, but sound.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has documented landslides and dust devils on the Martian surface.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019

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