英:['dʌstklɒθ]
美:['dʌstklɒθ]
英:['dʌstklɒθ]
美:['dʌstklɒθ]
noun
a cloth for dusting
dust cover
1 At the top, two small pieces of dustcloth, cut into ears and glued in place.
2 She took a dustcloth and the vacuum and went into the living room.
3 One cold afternoon Mrs. Little was shaking her dustcloth out of the window when she noticed a small bird lying on the windowsill, apparently dead.
4 She dropped her dustcloth to a chair, scanning his face intently.
5 As she went back up the yard she saw Mrs. Pinkney, with her head tied up with a towel, shaking a dustcloth at one of her front windows.
6 I led him out to the linen closet, where I loaded him with a bucket of soapy water, disinfectant, a broom, a dustcloth, and clean linens.
7 He picked the Antarian up by a fold of his robe and shook him like a dirty dustcloth.
8 As he picked up his broom again, his twin sister came to the door to shake a dustcloth.
9 During this recital, Mrs. Flynn had drawn near and now with eyes on Murphy she was absently polishing the teaspoons with the dustcloth.
10 Phillida was framed in the open square, and shook a dustcloth at us by way of greeting and evidence of her busyness.
11 She rose and re-arranged a very sporting dustcloth which the baroness had laid across the wounded man's legs, and which his movement had cast to one side.
12 Then he secured a dustcloth from a hook, produced a small vial of chloroform, and poured some of the liquid on the cloth.
13 "I suppose if I ask her why she did not sweep and dust in here she will tell me that she forgot whether I said to use the blue dustcloth or the pink," groaned Janice.