- present participle of dust.
dusting
Example Sentences
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Granted, rebalancing is one of those periodic chores that’s easy to neglect, like dusting your refrigerator coils.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
Platner is dusting Mills by lopsided margins in polling averages.
From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026
China’s central bank has started taking steps to check the yuan’s recent advance, dusting off an old playbook that would reduce the cost of betting against the currency.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Snow is expected to blanket parts of Southern California through Wednesday, with up to 3 feet predicted at the highest peaks and a dusting possible across the Interstate 5 corridor.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
About how snow conditions are perfect because they prefer to be able to walk on hard-crusted snow, but this most recent dusting over that icy stuff will let him pick up its tracks.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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