dust off
Example Sentences
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Aunt Kitty was brushing dust off her sleeves as we let our horses walk along the lane outside Atkinson.
From Literature
“Look to your left,” my aunt said softly, her voice close to my ear now as she pretended to dust off my wool wrap, “but don’t make a show of it.”
From Literature
First I had to dust off and reclaim the title of Artist I had buried underneath frustration and resentment and lay it loudly alongside that of Mother.
From Los Angeles Times
“The truth is always best,” she concluded as she quickly assembled clean clothes for the children and brushed the dust off her one and only hat.
From Literature
Others used the shutdown to dust off esoteric research projects.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.