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* Vegeta of ''DragonBall'' tries this against a powerful enemy, except he does it in midair. Kyoraku Shunsui has been known to use his straw hat to temporarily obscure his foe's vision.

* ''RaidersOfTheLostArk''. Indy throws sand in the eyes of a German soldier he's fighting.

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* In ''{{MST3K}}'' episode ''{{Horror Of Party Beach}}'', during the fight at the beginning. Quip the guys: "Oh, my radial keratotomy!"
* In ''{{MST3K}}'' episode ''{{I Was a Teenage Werewolf}}'', around the same time; Michael Landon pulls a handful of soil out of a nearby wheelbarrow and throws it at the [[DawsonCasting middle-aged high school student]] who's been beating the tar out of him so far. It doesn't really help.

* Vegeta of ''DragonBall'' tries this against a powerful enemy, except he does it in midair.

* In ''{{The Golden Compass}}'', Lyra instructs the other children to fling snow at the eyes of the Tartar soldiers at Bolvanger. She got the idea from an earlier incident in Oxford, where another child was temporarily blinded by mud thrown in his eyes.

* Charlie/Hank attempts this on the dirty cop in ''Me, Myself & Irene'', but since Hank isn't half as smooth as he thinks he is, he accidentally throws the dirt in Irene's eyes instead.

* In JodhaaAkbar, the eponymous Akbar does this to Jodhaa--with a bowl of flower petals. Her look of disbelief has to be seen to be believed.

* Averted in ''Ready to Rumble'', where David Arquette's character throws powder in the face of Diamond Dallas Page. DDP is unfazed and immediately calls him out on it, saying that that trick doesn't actually work.

* In ''{{MST3K}}'' episode "Warrior Of The Lost World", during the big brawl scene, I think.

* In the early ''{{Yu Gi Oh}}'' manga, Hirutani (a gang leader) throws ''glass'' into Joey/Jonouchi eyes. It works pretty well, but Hirutani then accidentally steps on some more glass, which alerts Joey/Jonouchi to his position. Good thing too though, seeing as Hirutani was just about to stab Joey/Jonouchi in the back with, (guess what?) more glass.

* Burglars in ''TheLordOfTheRings Online'' get a skill called "Dust in the Eyes." They can apparently hold a lot of dust, as an upgrade for the skill allows you to partially blind anyone in the vicinity.

* In Terry Pratchett's non-{{Discworld}} book {{Nation}}, the hero and the BigBad agree to a dual whereby they each choose a weapon and can start as soon as they pick it up. The BigBad waits for the hero to pick up his spear, and is shocked when he suddenly gets a fistful of dirt to the face: the hero had chosen the sand as his weapon.