Example Sentences

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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

Items can be in any condition except wet, mildewed or contaminated with hazardous materials.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2023

When a detergent company wanted to test the smell of freshly laundered towels that had previously been mildewed, it couldn’t spend six months waiting for towels to naturally mold.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2022

Abel blew his warm breath against the lock before opening Sommensen’s warehouse—a mildewed barn built of creosoted timbers, put up more than fifty years earlier.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson