kick up dust
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Schneider maintains that water-assisted sweeping equipment helps keep dust down, except in new construction areas where it seems to kick up dust, but he'll compensate by turning up the water."
- "The new lane was flat and smooth, allowing cars and trucks to go faster and kick up dust."
- "Anyway, they would step up to the firing line, carefully take aim, and kick up dust all around the target but seldom come close to the bull's eye."
- "Shanghai Kelly has been kicking up dust about the war on the crimps and boardinghouse keepers."
- "He kicked up dust about how we really didn't have our facts straight regarding his allegedly loaded gloves."
- "She was certain she was about to kick up dust about her mother just as Setsuka had done about Mitsu's death eighteen years ago."
Inflected Forms
kicks up dust (present, singular)
kicking up dust (participle, present)
kicked up dust (participle, past)
kicked up dust (past)
kick up a dust (alternative)