mildew

He said mildew is a common regional issue his team fixes as necessary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

When tested on wheat, these compounds helped protect against fungal infections such as powdery mildew.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025

In 2004, around 40 tenants of the building sued the owners, claiming they were exposed to mold and mildew, exposed electrical wiring, as well as leaky windows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2024

US defender Chastain vividly remembers the conditions - "the water dripping from the ceiling, the mildew - you can smell it".

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024

She remembers that the TV in the living room seemed to be on all the time and that the trailer smelled of cigarette smoke and the cat’s litterbox and mildew.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

All regions suffered from factors ranging from droughts and floods to water shortages and unexpected mildews.

From Salon ● May 1, 2024

Some fungi take the form of molds and mildews, which are commonly seen on rotting food.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018

In particular, he and his team are working on alternative treatments for common vine mildews; the conventional one, copper sulphate, accumulates in soil in doses that are toxic to wildlife.

From Nature ● Dec. 19, 2012

"It's bulky if you move it, traceable if you bank it, and it mildews if you bury it."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, in addition to bacteria and protozoa proper, he considers molds, mildews, smuts, rusts, toadstools, puff-balls, and the other fungi pathogenic for animals.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre

For me to even open an envelope meant a trip to my stepmother’s house, where the precious cache was moldering in a mildewed basement.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025

Today, Vicksburg is a destination for faux steamboats and tour buses half-filled with aging Civil War buffs and gamblers drawn to its storied battleground and mildewed casinos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

Finding few books on library architecture that were not centuries-old and in a dead or mildewed language, he took the advice of a neighbor across the street, novelist Toni Morrison.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2022

They say Invitation Homes would pay neither for the removal of the mildewed carpeting nor for the family to stay in a hotel.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2020

It was an eccentric, rainy, wind-beaten sea village, downtrodden and mildewed, the boards of its buildings bleached and weathered, their drainpipes rusted a dull orange.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

If your bathroom is cramped, super-plush towels will be a challenge to store and might not dry quickly enough to avoid mildewing.

From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2019

Eventually, the family sold the mildewing house, with its grand veranda and inner courtyard, and moved into a three-room flat.

From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2016

Now, I was wearing rapidly mildewing clothes and getting crushed by a Slovak and a Brit in a multinational game of Monopoly.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2012

Gun dealers all over the Gulf Coast region were driven out of business by the hurricane, and they sent their wet and mildewing records to Martinsburg.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2010

He could smell Tuf-Skin and ankle tape, week-old perspiration, moist towels mildewing in forgotten lockers, foot powder, ammonia, and unwashed socks.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy