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 Disaster funds have been dusted off in Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, alongside public appeals for cash donations to restore services, but support will be insufficient, and governments will have to take on yet more debt for rebuilding. —

Courtney Lindsay, WIRED, 13 July 2024 Maybe Kingsbury could even dust off this play design, which came out of a two-back set and went for a 47-yard touchdown to Zach Ertz, now with Washington. —

Sam Fortier, Washington Post, 12 June 2024 The city took longer than others to dust off its border closures, but despite this pause, two big-name properties found their way back on this year’s list. —

Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024 Viggo Mortensen did not plan to be in The Dead Don’t Hurt but had to dust off his cowboy boots and appear in the movie when another, unnamed, actor dropped out. —

Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 4 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for dust off

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