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Example sentences for: mildew

How can you use “mildew” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The smell is sort of a cross between mildew and a petrochemical plant.
In 1852 the island’s precious vines were blighted by mildew, wiping out an estimated 90 percent of the total crop.
It seemed to wear a thin, fuzzy coat of mildew, as if summoned for this rare duty from a cobwebbed trunk in the attic of obsolescence.
In the ninety-two entries under the subgroups Decay and Sickness we find further echoes of Hamlet: blast, carrion, foul, mildew, peak, rank, gross, rotten, unweeded, thought-sick.