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Example sentences for: mildew

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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.
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 1852 the island’s precious vines were blighted by mildew, wiping out an estimated 90 percent of the total crop.
The smell is sort of a cross between mildew and a petrochemical plant.