mildew

When tested on wheat, these compounds helped protect against fungal infections such as powdery mildew.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025

In 2004, around 40 tenants of the building sued the owners, claiming they were exposed to mold and mildew, exposed electrical wiring, as well as leaky windows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2024

US defender Chastain vividly remembers the conditions - "the water dripping from the ceiling, the mildew - you can smell it".

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024

I spent Tuesday scrubbing any traces of mildew off the floors and consulting with my landlords about getting a professional in here to assess the water damage inside the ceilings and walls.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024

The place smelled of mildew and disinfectant, and the yellow wallpaper in the foyer was peeling at the corners.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

All regions suffered from factors ranging from droughts and floods to water shortages and unexpected mildews.

From Salon ● May 1, 2024

Some fungi take the form of molds and mildews, which are commonly seen on rotting food.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018

In particular, he and his team are working on alternative treatments for common vine mildews; the conventional one, copper sulphate, accumulates in soil in doses that are toxic to wildlife.

From Nature ● Dec. 19, 2012

Investigating the riot of fungus, lichens, molds, smuts and mildews that festooned the place, Beebe discovered Protozoa, Coelenterata, Platyhelminthes, Nemathelminthes, and Rotifera, and was certain of the existence of Mollusca, Oligochaeta, Hirundinea and Arthropoda.

From Time Magazine Archive

The treatment can be used only to prevent attack, not to cure, except in the case of a few mildews that live on the outside of the leaf, as does the rose mildew.

From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Burkett, Charles William

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

Clearing out her house in a pandemic, I flung a lifetime of dusty or mildewed treasures into a giant orange dumpster.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2022

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

Thick dust crunched beneath their feet, and Harry’s nose detected, underneath the dank and mildewed smell, something worse, like meat gone bad.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

There are mountains of refuse at dozens of temporary sites statewide, filled with fallen trees, mildewing carpet, sodden drywall and other household items destroyed by the storm.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022

If your bathroom is cramped, super-plush towels will be a challenge to store and might not dry quickly enough to avoid mildewing.

From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2019

Eventually, the family sold the mildewing house, with its grand veranda and inner courtyard, and moved into a three-room flat.

From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2016

Now, I was wearing rapidly mildewing clothes and getting crushed by a Slovak and a Brit in a multinational game of Monopoly.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2012

He could smell Tuf-Skin and ankle tape, week-old perspiration, moist towels mildewing in forgotten lockers, foot powder, ammonia, and unwashed socks.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy