Sentences with dust off
dust off
D d - Critics were busy dusting down the same superlatives they had applied to their first three films. [VERB PREPOSITION noun]
- She dusted herself down and left to build her own career. [VERB pronoun-reflexive PREPOSITION]
- In BRIT, also use dust down
- He stood and dusted down his suit and folded the letter away. [VERB PREPOSITION noun (not pronoun)]
- To dust a table.
- To dust rosebushes with an insecticide.
- To dust insecticide on a rosebush.
- To dust with an insecticide in late spring.
- Another manufacturer has bitten the dust.
- I'm going to dust off my accounting skills and try to get a job in the finance department.
- Don't be so meek, they'll leave you in the dust.
- He will resign rather than lick the dust.
- We turned them loose on the work, and they made the dust fly.
- As the country moved toward totalitarianism, many of the intelligentsia shook the dust from their feet.
- He threw dust in our eyes by pretending to be a jeweler and then disappeared with the diamonds.
- I think it's time to dust off my old golf clubs, now that I'm retired.