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dust devil

NOUN
  1. a miniature whirlwind strong enough to whip dust and leaves and litter into the air

How To Use dust devil In A Sentence

  • They can cause dust devils and whirlwinds, though these are nothing when compared to the immense dust storms that can occur.
  • Chickens clucked about, scratching up dust into tiny dust devils with their claws.
  • Gullies, streaks, ripples and dust devil tracks on Russell Crater Dunes.
  • The dust devil column is clearly defined and is clearly bent in the down wind direction.
  • Scientists who chase dust devils report that the tiny twisters can produce a small magnetic field that changes magnitude between 3 and 30 times per second.
  • The birds spun like a blue-black dust devil before resettling out of sight. Slice Of Cherry
  • Near the end of the movie, the base of the dust devil becomes much wider.
  • Atreya then went on to show that substantially greater quantities of H2O2 can be produced by triboelectric fields in dust devils and dust storms and through saltation.
  • The cloud seemed to shimmer slightly, and then it coalesced into two whirling dust devils that raced away towards the enemy at phenomenal speed.
  • The film opens with a tableaux of a grimy industrial area where a man loiters impassively, slouching against a wall, kicking a bottle down the street, watching the wind whip up dust devils on a vacant patch of gravel.
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