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Discover LudwigThe phrase "accumulating dust" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an object or place that has not been used or cleaned for a long time, resulting in dust gathering on its surface.
Example: "The old books on the shelf have been accumulating dust for years, untouched and forgotten."
Alternatives: "collecting dust" or "gathering dust".
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They just sit there, accumulating dust and fines, until they are slung out or burnt.
The medical equipment provided by earlier aid programmes remains unused, accumulating dust.
This stuff is just sitting here accumulating dust, so I decided to clean out my closet".
The entire setting, everything around Iris, is breaking down, accumulating dust, draining of people, as if the earth were rapidly becoming less populated instead of more so.
As such, earlier scientific models suggested that any accumulating dust could be traced to meteor impacts and falling cosmic dust.
She's kept thousands of scrapbook pages hidden in cardboard boxes accumulating dust in her little home for 20 years.
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The accumulated dust filled two garbage bags every shift.
More than brushing off the accumulated dust, but less than total reconfiguration.
Regularly clean any dust from the back of the fridge or freezer – accumulated dust increases energy consumption.
His forebears had no part in the past, the accumulated dust of which now muffles his own footfalls.
"I do not remember him, but the pain and sorrow of that day stayed in my home like accumulated dust".
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