dust
noun
earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
have been dusting
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present perfect progressiveof dust.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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“What’s been happening recently is Native people have been dusting off these treaties, and saying, ‘Look, you made this treaty, you can’t just walk away from it.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2021
Whether it was guilt over all that, or simply nostalgia, a number of veteran sports writers have been dusting off memories and telling stories about what great places the press center’s predecessors were.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 7, 2017
At best, for an individual at the bottom of the pyramid in 17th- or 18th-century Europe, one’s closest interaction with books might have been dusting them and the mahogany shelves they were housed in.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2015
Neurotically attentive to the state of his library, he is suspicious when his wife claims to have been dusting the history books.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2015
"The housemaid may have been dusting, and put another in its place."
From The Children of Wilton Chase by L. T. Meade
