moldered

Example Sentences

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The family’s graceful villa in Yangon moldered, as did the rest of the country.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2021

“As one gloomy expectant mother prophesied in 1801, ‘My dearest child, When this is delivered unto you, the hand that writes it will be moldered in dust.’”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2020

But within those I’ve read but not revisited while they’ve moldered in their cardboard prisons are untold insights.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2020

The rest of their things moldered in storage.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2020

She moldered in humid rooms with droning biology and composition professors.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby