1.   Beck had no intention of letting his report gather dust on the legislative shelves.

2.   Each one looked as if it was consulted too often to gather dust.

3.   Excitement fades to disillusionment, and so another piece of technology goes to gather dust on a storeroom shelf.

4.   Its conclusions were left to gather dust with all the commission reports and suggestions accumulated over the past thirty years.

5.   Millions of these books are shredded yearly or allowed to rot and gather dust in purgatorial existence.

6.   Others were gathering dust by New Year and forgotten by February.

7.   The biggest disadvantage to having silk flowers is that they gather dust.

8.   The Macintosh factory kept churning out gorgeous boxes that gathered dust in dealerships.

9.   We sold our piano because it was just gathering dust.

10.   Instead the plans are being left to gather dust.