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
So is Andrew Boyce’s set, which summons a dingy, mildewed generic motel room.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
There was a pile of rubbish in one corner of the room: cardboard boxes filled with mildewed papers and decaying curtains in a heap beside them.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
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