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

This light color helps to reflect sunlight and heat, helping astronauts to maintain a comfortable body temperature, and the white material also makes lunar dust very visible, allowing astronauts to more easily keep track and dust off. —Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 8 June 2026

What better time to dust off your form-fitting bottoms and give them another whirl? —India Roby, Glamour, 8 June 2026

Both series peaked early and both sputtered on to diminishing returns before giving up the ghost (sorry) — at least until the IP was dusted off again, to arguable gain in the case of Scream. —David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026

This isn’t the time to make clear your allegiances, show off your 4H-worthy vegetable gardening skills, or dust off your ceramic garden figurines. —Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 31 May 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