Preposition: on

• shelf: This is not some fancy business plan to go dusty on the shelf.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• get: Get those fingers dusty in among the racks or keep your fingers clean and check out their mail order section.

Modifies a noun

• tome: While the word'museum ' might summon up images of dusty tomes and forbidding architecture, Kim Pickin's vision is far more fun.

• attic: On the bare wooden floor in the dusty attic, Leo taps.

• shelf: A great writer is not a man who fills our dusty shelves with his forgotten volumes.

• recess: No longer is information held in the dusty recesses of libraries guarded by the academic librarians.

• galaxy: Suppose however that the lens is a dusty spiral galaxy.

• desert: To me, life seems to stretch out endlessly, like a long, dusty desert.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Cons: Tarmac surfaces where cars were left & collected, but not so good where cars were stored, hence returned rather dusty.

• extremely: It should be applied more often under competition or extremely dusty conditions.

• slightly: We found it at Azeitao, a cluster of villages that surround a slightly dusty town about 45 minutes from Lisbon.

• very: Wrong keys given had to return them - car returned back very dusty.

• quite: Cons: Car got quite dusty from the concrete recycling plant.

• so: My verdict: - Not so dusty, but give me caving any time!

Used with adjective complement

• get: You know, the crockery you haven't used for years, getting dusty in the cupboard, loft or garage.

• become: In that day people wore sandals and their feet became quite dusty.

• sit: There is an old telex machine in one of the offices, sitting dusty in the corner, making you think it's 1976.

• return: Wrong keys given had to return them - car returned back very dusty.

• go: This is not some fancy business plan to go dusty on the shelf.

Preposition: in

• summer: Roads and lanes were dry and dusty in summer, and muddy morasses in the worst of the wet winter weather.