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Example sentences for: mothballs

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When he can't raise the money and concludes, "Aesthetically, I'm not ready," Borchardt hauls the abandoned Coven out of mothballs in spite of its "stilted" performances and sets about the seemingly impossible task of raising money to finish it.
When he royally fancies the lady love (Judith Godrèche) of the son (Peter Sarsgaard) of former musketeer Athos (John Malkovich) and orders the young man shipped off to battle, it's time for the aging Three Musketeers--Athos, Aramis (Jeremy Irons), and Porthos (Gérard Depardieu)--to haul their uniforms out of mothballs and prove once again that they're more than the stuff of chocolate bars.