There was a dead and dusty smell to the cubicle.

Claire was beginning to hate the cold, dusty smell of concrete.

There was the dry dusty smell of old cloth and paper.

Some light smell, dusty and sweet, came from it when she took it out.

The loft had the dusty, close smell that sealed rooms often get.

It smelled of old food and the dusty smell that large communal spaces always have.

It was cold in the corridor, and the air had an old, dusty smell.

The big leaves of the hedge she stood beside were prickly and gave off a dusty smell.

The books were all too new to have that dusty, closed-in smell.

All the windows were shut and the place had a close, dusty smell.