dust off

verb

dusted off; dusting off; dusts off

transitive verb

: 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

Most firms keep a running post-mortem, but it is stored somewhere nobody typically looks, dusted off only when the next fund’s LP needs a slide on lessons learned. — Henrik Landgren, Fortune, 29 July 2026

So maybe at that time, dusting off a 25-year-old album with multiple labels involved wasn’t at the forefront of anyone at Disney’s minds. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026

But there’s some work, some rust that needs to be kind of dusted off. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026

For inspiration, Rosenzweig has been dusting off Milwaukee’s community survey from exactly a century ago. — Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 13 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1940, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dust off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff