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
Getting pricked by a thorn is not only painful, but a mildewed thorn can cause a serious illness.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2022
For all the hand-wringing that film and television have eclipsed literary fiction at the center of the cultural conversation, it must be acknowledged that occasionally cinema saves novels from mildewed obscurity.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2021
He had a cavernous mouth, cavernous cheeks, cavernous, sad, mildewed eyes.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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