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Example sentences for "mildewed"

Lexicographically close words:
mild; milde; milder; mildest; mildew; mildews; mildly; mildness; mildnesse; milds
  1. To the right was a church, immense, austere; to the left were some mildewed dwellings; from an upper window a man with a crimson turban looked down with indifferent eyes and abruptly a bird sang.

  2. And mildewed skulls and ashen bones That lie before each pillaréd mount, Speak tidings of a leprous flood.

  3. At noon the weak, white sunlight crawls, Like feeble feet once beautiful, From mildewed walks to mildewed walls, Down which the oozing moisture falls Upon the cold toadstool.

  4. Neglected walks a-tangle With dodder-strangled grass; And every mildewed angle Heaped with dead leaves that spangle The paths that round it pass.

  5. One thing about him struck me forcibly and most unpleasantly: he was covered all over with a fuzzy, greenish mold, such as one sometimes sees upon mildewed bread.

  6. I am grateful enough that you are invisible to other people, for I should die with shame to be seen with such a mildewed monkey of a conscience as you are.

  7. But to be immured in such thoughts, when the thrill and joy of life are gone, when its best promises are mildewed with disillusion and disappointment, is to poison the very source of sane existence and healthy endeavour.

  8. Poor Danvers grieved for her blasted crops, And Wilmington mourned over mildewed hops.

  9. Thrice on his cheek had rained the morning light, Thrice on his lips the mildewed kiss of night, Crouched by some porphyry column's shining plinth, Or stretched beneath the odorous terebinth.

  10. And about them was the odour of musty, mildewed broadcloth, taken out of damp presses only on such occasions.

  11. If he learned from books at all, it was from the wonderful, dusty, mildewed volumes that Marget Maclean had on her shelves behind the post-office.

  12. Built of canes, it was thatched with long, mildewed grass.

  13. This precious document had been found pinned half-mildewed to the clinker wall of the sulphurous and deserted hut.

  14. Now, I've got some good news, after all the old mildewed stuff," said Captain Dave.

  15. My conscience is mildewed and my temper is blue molded," declared Grace.

  16. Nor these alone Time's saddest work reveal, Mildewed and torn, rotting in damp recess The records of their history remain, Until some reverent hand doth bring them forth, And give their wondrous tale unto the world.

  17. Upon the floor lay soft, heavy rugs and carpets, blackened and mildewed with age, but still showing here and there gorgeous patches of coloring.

  18. Here, again, were the same rotting, mildewed richness and profusion, but they were of a different character.

  19. In a dim distant corner of this one-time magnificent room stood a draped couch or bed, with heavy hangings tattered and stained with rot, the once white linen mildewed and smeared with age.

  20. The next minute he ran against the corner of the table, stumbled over the chair that stood beside it, overturning the mildewed lute, which fell with a hollow, musical crash.

  21. To Take Out Mildew, mix equal parts of powdered borax and starch with half as much salt; moisten the whole with lemon juice, spread the mixture on the mildewed spot and place the garment in the sun on the grass.

  22. But my inspection of mildewed old books, and my heroic endurance of cold and damp in mouldy old churches, resulted in nothing but disappointment.

  23. I had done my duty in the matter of mouldy churches and mildewed registries; and I considered myself entitled to a holiday during the few hours that must elapse before the starting of the hybrid vehicle for Hidling.

  24. Thrice on his cheek had rained the morning light; Thrice on his lips the mildewed kiss of night, Crouched by a sheltering column's shining plinth, Or stretched beneath the odorous terebinth.

  25. Once more the mysterious house was in silence, and with a last look around at the mildewed walls, the girls and Mrs. Mackson preceded Mr. Blackford out of it.

  26. The paper on the walls was mildewed and hanging in strips.

  27. There in the dust, surrounded by a fortification of dented hatboxes, he perused old Sunday newspapers whose mildewed leaves were destroyed biennially like Canterbury Bells.

  28. The taxi swept on down the Hampstead Road until it turned off on the right to Camden Town, whose curious rococo squares mildewed and queerly ornamented seemed the abode of a fantastic depression.

  29. He brought a faded and mildewed photograph.

  30. He imagined he was back at the factory on the African river and Wyndham's uncle, the man who vanished, was in the big mildewed room.

  31. Redmond sat smoking in silence, while Gilby listlessly turned over an old English newspaper, and huge brown cockroaches crawled up and down the mildewed walls.

  32. The mildewed building was insufferably hot, and the thunder of the surf sufficient to keep awake any man who had lately emerged from the hush of the twilight forest; but at last Maxwell sank into fitful slumber.

  33. The scorching sun of the long, dry season of California seemed to have no effect on the foliage, and is five years' experience I never found a mildewed berry.

  34. My English varieties mildewed badly this summer, and the man from whom I got them says that he has never seen it in his garden, not far from me.

  35. One side looked into a little mildewed court, with a slimy growth of Protococcus viridis, and into which the people of another house constantly came to stare.

  36. Their existence would have been mildewed and moth-eaten with misery.

  37. It was a ragged, old-fashioned acrobatic entertainment, with the mildewed humour of antiquated clowns.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mildewed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.