Example sentences for: musty

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

  • There are a few Nixon-era op-eds that are musty period pieces now.

  • The Softbook is a writing-tablet-size screen with a leather cover that gives off what someone must have imagined to be the musty scent of an old book (but is actually the smell of a new shoe).

  • Under his military exterior he was a pure aesthete, a devotee of esoteric literature and musty medieval romanticism, a kind of tactical symbolist.

  • Traditional conservative causes like the gold standard tend to have a musty, old-fashioned feel.

  • Lately, an old word has resurfaced: The United States stands accused of hegemonism . Didn't this musty term figure in Thucydides' description of how Sparta feared the rising power of Athens?


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