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Example sentences for "mouldiness"

Lexicographically close words:
moulded; moulder; mouldered; mouldering; moulders; moulding; mouldings; moulds; mouldy; moullah
  1. It is fine weather now, and we are burning as much fuel as can be done without setting the house on fire, and it takes it all to drive the horrid mouldiness even temporarily out of the air.

  2. A few drops of any perfumed oil will secure libraries from the consuming effects of mouldiness and damp.

  3. Russia leather, which is scented with the tar of the birch-tree, is not subject to mouldiness, and books bound in it will even prevent mouldiness in other books bound in calf, near which they happen to lie.

  4. Aromatic seeds are not subject to mould, and gingerbread, or cakes containing caraway seeds are far less liable to mouldiness than plain bread.

  5. A single drop of the same will prevent a pint of ink from mouldiness for any length of time.

  6. A cottony mouldiness extended round its head; and in the corners of its eyelids might be seen little red specks which appeared to move.

  7. They lived without employment remote from the apartments, slept at night in the gardens, ate the refuse from the kitchens,--a human mouldiness vegetating in the shadow of the palace.

  8. No change in their conditions enabled him to produce one species, much less a genus, of mouldiness in preference to another, by any change in the infusions employed by him.

  9. Dutrochet is approvingly quoted by Professor Bastian, as asserting that he could produce different genera of mouldiness (low mycological forms) at will, by simply employing different infusions.

  10. Putrefaction was always characterised by a putrid odour, an alkaline reaction, and the presence of animalcules; whereas Mouldiness and Fermentation were distinguished by a mouldy or musty odour, an acid reaction, and the presence of Fungi.

  11. We presume our readers are aware that mouldiness is occasioned by the growth of minute vegetables.

  12. Moist; as in hair-mould, that kind of mouldiness which appears on bread, &c.

  13. The mouldiness which gathers on what is kept in a damp place.

  14. The perfume of any essential oil will prevent mouldiness from ink, paste, preserves, &c.

  15. The appliances required for winemaking are all round badly preserved, and are covered with mouldiness and dust.

  16. Careful inquiry was instituted into the matter, and the only discoverable cause of the mischief was incipient putrefaction and slight mouldiness of the meat.

  17. This last theory receives support from the fact that a peculiar mouldiness is always to be observed in these dangerous sausages, and that this is coincident with the development of their poisonous qualities.


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