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
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 say Invitation Homes would pay neither for the removal of the mildewed carpeting nor for the family to stay in a hotel.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2020
Abel blew his warm breath against the lock before opening Sommensen’s warehouse—a mildewed barn built of creosoted timbers, put up more than fifty years earlier.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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