All the pipes in the canteen were thick with dust.

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Everything was thick with dust.

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The unwary package tourist could find himself in a barely-built concrete rectangle plonked in desert-scrub wasteland, thick with cement dust.

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Many of the barracks were destroyed by the retreating Nazis, but some still stand, thick with time-trodden dust and heavy with eerie air.

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