stale-smelling
Example Sentences
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What is certain is that its airiness is a delight when I pull off the stale-smelling N95 protective mask I must wear to go out for coffee.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2020
William gave Lovey a perfunctory stale-smelling peck on the cheek.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 30, 2013
Prowling through moldy basements or the stale-smelling racks of castoffs at the Salvation Army takes work and an unexpected degree of passion and also possibly a hand-hewn clothespin clipped to one’s nose.
From New York Times • May 12, 2010
The Beatles were still relative unknowns playing stale-smelling dives in Liverpool, and Bob Dylan was staring hopefully into the spotlights at Greenwich Village folk clubs.
From Time Magazine Archive
I shoveled stale-smelling chili onto my plate and poked my fork at the lumpy chunks of beef, kidney beans, and vegetables.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
