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
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 transformed a pair of mildewed offices into a receiving gallery for clients and collaborators, decorating it with delirious planes of contrasting color — a constant in much of Cappello’s work, despite his colorblindness.
From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2021
Thick dust crunched beneath their feet, and Harry’s nose detected, underneath the dank and mildewed smell, something worse, like meat gone bad.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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