• The third ingredient of the make-up was starch used to this day in cosmetics to create a powdery feel when a cream is rubbed into the skin.

    ECONOMIST: The Romans, too, had sophisticated cosmetics

  • As red earth gave way to gray and what looked like a shoreline, veins of a powdery white mineral appeared in the ground.

    NEWYORKER: The Martian Chroniclers

  • Napster co-founder Sean Parker is portrayed as a greedy, out-of-control adolescent with a penchant for underage girls and the powdery drug that ruined many a boomer back in the day.

    FORBES: The World's Women Billionaires

  • The letter contained a "threatening note and powdery substance, " said Lieutenant Dan Nichols, a spokesman for the Capitol Police.

    BBC: Senate employees on Capitol Hill

  • On September 25, the woman had contact with a letter or package with a white powdery substance and began experiencing symptoms of cutaneous anthrax three days later.

    CNN: Cutaneous anthrax most common, most survived

  • Body bombs gained worldwide attention in 2009 when al Qaeda's chief bomb-maker, Ibrahim al-Asiri, built a device containing around 100 grams of PETN, a difficult-to-detect powdery explosive, that was designed to be inserted inside the rectum of a suicide bomber.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The original Oscar and its attendant bath products have received updated and far finer packaging, and last spring, just in time for Mother's Day, a fresher, less powdery spin-off called Esprit d'Oscar was introduced.

    WSJ: Oscar de la Renta's Next Big Act

  • CO2 comes from burning coal or gas, and the heat typically 60 degrees Celcius would make the dry water, especially in its powdery form, evaporate if placed in a chimney or outlet.

    FORBES: What Is Dry Water?

  • Milan-based interior designer Ilaria Miani styled their rooms in a palette of deep reds, powdery lavender and asparagus green, installing Italian-made furnishings, kitchens and wine cellars.

    WSJ: The Rebirth of a Tiny Town in Tuscany: The Renaissance Returns

  • The powdery lignin, once separated from the cellulose, is a very useful substance in its own right.

    FORBES: Ethanol

  • Utah is blessed with powdery snow that is slippery without being particularly wet, a resource that it shares with very few other places.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • Using that information, her imagination, and powdery material she described as similar to sand and glue, she constructs a face and brings it into being with a three-dimensional printer.

    WSJ: Art Emerges from DNA Left Behind

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