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Example sentences for "moldy"

Lexicographically close words:
moldering; molders; molding; moldings; molds; mole; molecular; molecule; molecules; molehill
  1. Rick hurried to help out, and in a moment they had lifted away enough rocks to disclose a considerable amount of moldy cloth.

  2. Anyone would be curious about someone carrying a moldy bag, but why try to conceal that curiosity?

  3. First they uncovered three cans of preserved meat, and then a small flour bag which had rotted and now disclosed a hard and moldy mass inside.

  4. The cheeks are sprinkled with moldy traces of beard.

  5. He was like the fanatical admirer of Michael Angelo who used to reproduce in his copies even the cracks in the wall of the moldy patches which had themselves been hallowed by their appearance in the hallowed pictures.

  6. First of all to go was that sickening sweet tenderness which sucked away the soul of Germany like a damp and moldy riverbed.

  7. The digestive organs always suffer from moldy or musty feeds.

  8. In many cases horses have been killed by eating moldy silage, and the careless person who fed it at once blamed the silage itself, rather than his own carelessness and the mold which really was the cause of the trouble.

  9. The bad effect of moldy or dusty hay, fodder, or feed of any kind can not be overestimated.

  10. If the disease is caused by moldy or damaged feed there may be great muscular weakness, with partial paralysis of the throat, as shown by inability to swallow.

  11. It may be found by this investigation that the horse has been fed on damaged feed, such as brewers' grains or moldy silage, and this may be sufficient to explain the profound depression and weakness that are characteristic of forage poisoning.

  12. Just look at all the moldy roots and growing things!

  13. Grace was gingerly touching the "moldy things" in a rather vain attempt at exploring the depths of the old mahogany bureau drawers.

  14. Another popular brand when fully ripe is well covered with yellow-orange viscid slime[53] but is fairly firm in texture with high flavor; still others show dry moldy surfaces and mild flavors.

  15. No mold should be visible inside the rind, but the moldy rind itself is necessary because the ripening is caused by the enzymes secreted by the organisms of the rind into the cheese.

  16. When the cheeses are well covered with this moldy rind, they are removed to the ripening cellar.

  17. These slender canals allow the mold organism to penetrate the whole mass more thoroughly, the moldy straw matting upon which the ripening cheese are placed helping to furnish an abundant seeding of the desired germ.

  18. In the Stilton cheese, one of the highly prized moldy cheeses of England, the desired mold fungus is introduced into the green cheese by exchanging plugs taken with a cheese trier from a ripe Stilton.

  19. The walls were moldy and hung with ancient cobwebs; the curtains and beddings were rotten; the furniture was rickety and ready to fall to pieces.

  20. The damp, moldy smell of an underground room filled the air, and but for a slender beam of light which flashed beneath an adjoining door the place was dark as night.

  21. Hence some people, to keep away the skippers, hang their bacon in a cellar where there is dampness, preferring to have it moldy rather than "skippery.

  22. It has been noticed, however, that moldy bacon is seldom infested with the skipper.

  23. There are moments when I feel inclined to set fire to the hateful University, and destroy all the moldy old creatures who inhabit it.

  24. But he persisted in hanging about Germany, and conferring with moldy old doctors (whom he calls "Princes of Science"!

  25. He stepped softly into the holy edifice, which had a damp, moldy smell upon week-days.

  26. She provided just one meal of weak tea, moldy bread, and rancid bacon for me.

  27. There was some sodden, dirty straw and a lot of old moldy sandbags.

  28. With their secret tricks they have put a string of Ifs and Buts to it; in their dusty, moldy offices it has become sick and blunt and withered, so that they can turn and twist it as they like.

  29. At that time the Law was still sound; then it did not live in dusty, moldy offices.

  30. Mine is turning green--a dark, dark moldy green of envy.

  31. You know how much I care about the old moldy college.

  32. The house was a ramshackle cottage, with a damp and moldy air pervading it within and without.

  33. There are some with half-moldy faces, the skin rusted, or yellow with dark spots.

  34. Your hands touch only the cold, sticky and sepulchral clay of the wall, which bears you down on all sides and enshrouds you in a dismal solitude; its blind and moldy breath touches your face.

  35. Contamination of fresh food by means of moldy food.

  36. What conclusion can you draw from this concerning the placing of moldy food with fresh food?

  37. Hot tears filled his eyes as the stage rolled along past the moldy ditch into which Allen had fallen.

  38. It was a doorway beside the Moldy Fig, opening on a flight of steps running to an apartment above the bar.

  39. Mary Hall was still at T-shirted Elmer's when I dialed his phone, and she agreed to meet me on the street in front of the Moldy Fig.

  40. Mary would have preferred to remain in silence as we rode a cab back to the Moldy Fig, and huddled over in her corner of the bubble.

  41. A bat, disturbed by these rays or by my own movement, detached himself from his hold on a remnant of moldy tapestry near me, and after circling dizzily around my head, wheeled the flickering noiselessness of his flight into a darker corner.

  42. Hereupon, having retuned the instrument, I launched forth into an old Spanish love-song, which I had met with in some moldy library during my travels, and had set to music of my own.

  43. Say, I don't let any John get moldy on me.

  44. Her talk of Johns, of dumb times and moldy times, of classy times and classy memories varied only slightly.

  45. The food or water may contain parasites, or large quantities of mustard, pepper, or may be moldy or tainted.


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