mildewed
Example Sentences
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When Bill first saw her small, shabby, mildewed lab space, she was momentarily ashamed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
In an interview last summer, he sat on the mildewed porch of a house crowded with other migrant children.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
She was amazed by her own fluidness, it was as if she had convinced even herself that she was not living on memories mildewed by thirteen years.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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