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Discover LudwigThe phrase "Wipe the dust" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when instructing someone to clean a surface by removing dust. Example: "Before we start the presentation, please wipe the dust off the projector lens."
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I want to wipe the dust from your soul-window.
The word abacus is probably derived, through its Greek form abakos, from a Semitic word such as the Hebrew ibeq ("to wipe the dust"; noun abaq, "dust").
I try to wipe the dust off of it — I've got it hidden right now.' 49ers receiver Mario Manningham, revealing that he speaks to his Giants Super Bowl ring.
I promise Katie I will wipe the dust off the plants' leaves every couple of weeks, mist them regularly with a sprayer – and try not to kill them with kindness.
Crimes include a failure to wipe the dust off a portrait of Kim the patriarch; having been a diplomat or student in eastern Europe in the late 1980s and therefore having witnessed the collapse of socialism; having contact (usually in China) with South Koreans; or being a Christian.
As one of Mono-ha's practitioners, Nobuo Sekine, told a group of art critics: "We may no longer be able to 'create,' but what we can do is to wipe the dust off the surface of things and let the world that it is a part of appear".
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Mona wiped the dust off the counter with her hand.
"My sticker collection," he says sadly, wiping the dust off a dresser.
Last December, a crew began taking each book from the shelves and wiping the dust from it.
Emily Wilson wipes the dust of ages from Homer's prose in her new translation of The Odyssey.
She wipes the dust off the corpses of children disfigured by violence, stops to wring out her heart, then carries on.
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