mildewed
Example Sentences
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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
This is how Lili Anolik found herself digging through the mildewed trash pile of Eve Babitz’s personal effects after her death in late 2021.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024
In an interview last summer, he sat on the mildewed porch of a house crowded with other migrant children.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 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
There are some things that really are beyond repair—a rusted pot with a splintered handle, a box of books so damaged by water they’re mildewed and hard to read.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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