dust off

verb

dusted off; dusting off; dusts off

: to bring out or back to use again

dusted off his golf clubs when he retired

Examples of dust off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web September is also International Update Your Resume Month, a time to dust off your resume or start working on a new one explains Career Directors International, an association and learning lab for career industry professionals. —

Diane Winiarski, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024 Grab a Swiffer dry cloth and dust off the dashboard, console, door handles and anything else that needs it. —

Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2024 Mask bans have been utilized to arrest protestors in the past, but as protests over the Israel-Gaza war have intensified this year, state officials and university administrations dusted off some of these laws in order to dissuade protestors from wearing masks. —

Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 14 Aug. 2024 Trending on Billboard To celebrate, Bush and Nettles dusted off a quartet of unreleased recordings from 2019 to make their new EP, There Goes the Neighborhood, which came out Aug. 9 via Big Machine Records. —

Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for dust off

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