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 book "strands the reader in the musty groves of academe and mutes the passions of the subtitle," says Jungian analyst Claire Douglas in the Washington Post Book World . (Harvard University Press plugs the book.)

  • Those dreading a standard-issue, musty Miss Havisham will be delighted by this flamboyantly posturing, pantsuit-clad crone with her face cream and "chica-boom" slang.

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

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


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