Crossword-Solution: POWDERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Powdery | a. | Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. |
| Powdery | a. | Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. |
| Powdery | a. | Resembling powder; consisting of powder. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “POWDERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like some suspicious substances | 1 answer |
| pulverous | 1 answer |
| Mealy. | 3 answers |
| pulverulent | 4 answers |
| Like some snow | 4 answers |
| ARENACEOUS | 5 answers |
| chalky | 10 answers |
| AS IF DULLED IN COLOR WITH A SPRINKLING OF POWDER | 11 answers |
| Sandy | 13 answers |
| friable | 13 answers |
| Crumbly | 16 answers |
| dusty | 24 answers |
| pounded | 30 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POWDERY (5)
Then I got a big pebble from the river, and came and hammered till I had flattened a coil in the decorations, and the verdigris came off in powdery flakes.
And where it came upon water some chemical action occurred, and the surface would be instantly covered with a powdery scum that sank slowly and made way for more.
The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newlyÏgathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
They had reached a point where the trail passes through a narrow dry arroyo which the waters of the rainy season had cut deep into the soft, powdery soil.
The land is wild, weird, full of twisted trees, strangely colored rocks, fantastic formations, bleak mountains of slabs, volcanic cones, lava, dry powdery soil or loose shale, close-growing grasses, and strong winds.
Quotes with POWDERY (3)
As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the page in little…
The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. We are not conscious of daylight as that which displaces darkness. Daylight, even when the sun is clear of clouds, seems to us simply the natural condition of the earth and air. When we think of the downs, we think of the downs in daylight, as with think of a rabbit with its fur on. Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not: and we do not usuall…
All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the volcano's mouth, they spurt in to the sky, then fall again. In the quivering air, like gelatine, the sounds trace their bubble paths. Can you imagine that?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2001–2015).