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• The onus is on the landlord to make sure the walls are protected from mildew.From the entry onus
• It was dark and musty, the carpet giving off an olid smell of mildew.2000, Chris R. Jamison, The Chesler Legacy, page 46. From the entry olid
• That night I lay on a buttony mildewed company mattress between my favorite sheets.1997, Kate Wheeler, “Improving My Average”, in Not Where I Started From, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 5. From the entry buttony
• High school locker rooms smell from sweat, mildew, roachicide, and pimple cream.1996, Charley Rosen, The House of Moses All-Stars, Seven Stories Press, page 244. From the entry roachicide
• Measurement was by mildew infestation on rye, ascertained as % of the rained and unrained untreated control.1971, Proceedings of the British Insecticide & Fungicide Conference. From the entry unrained
• Now a new runway is being carved from the jungle, just south of World War II ruins inked with mildew.2023 March 25, Damien Cave, “An Anxious Asia Arms for a War It Hopes to Prevent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry World War II
• In downy mildews, it has been possible up to now to avoid undesirable name changes for most phytopathologically important species.2008, Hermann Voglmayr, “Progress and challenges in systematics of downy mildews and white blister rusts: new insights from genes and…. From the entry phytopathologically
• Fukien bamboo ware attracts with clever combinations of natural and painted colors and is resistant to worms and mildew.1978 August, Chia-shu Wang, “The Artcraft of Weaving”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVII, number 8, Peking: China Welfare Institute…. From the entry Putien
• The game is played out, the figures have melted away, the lines are frazzled, the board is mildewed.1941, Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi, page 143. From the entry barbarious
• Diluted neem oil can be effective as a pesticide and can control various fungal diseases, such as powdery mildew, on animals and plants.2013, Meg Stout, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Aquaponic Gardening, →ISBN. From the entry pesticide
• They can be devastating to certain plants if left uncontrolled: a downy mildew of grapes decimated European vineyards during the nineteenth century.2001, Otis C. Maloy, Timothy D. Murray, et al., Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology, volume 1, page 379. From the entry decimate
• Eliot had his legion of followers: the immaculate minor poet armaturing in exquisite technique a mildewed softness, and living a reminiscent universe which never existed.1940, Waldo David Frank, Chart for Rough Water: Our Role in a New World, page 147. From the entry armature
• The box was set down, the stiff buckles of its mildewed straps tackled by a dozen thumby hands, the lid hurled back.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 147–8. From the entry thumby
• The two distant shifts of downy mildews across three subfamilies of Asteraceae occurred rather recently, and in Asteroideae, a coevolutive adaptation has apparently not yet led to speciation.2015 August 1, “Host Jumps and Radiation, Not Co‐Divergence Drives Diversification of Obligate Pathogens. A Case Study in Downy Mildews…. From the entry coevolutive
• In a warm space without good air circulation, conditions will also be ripe for the development of mildew or for the proliferation of pests like aphids.2014, Alice McGowan, Brian McGowan, edited by Sarah Guare and Carleen Madigan, Saving Container Plants: Overwintering Techniques for…. From the entry brugmansia
• Jeanne-Marie came nearer the hearth, unglued the mildewed pages of a magazine, then leafed through the pretty people and practical advice for laundering in low temperatures.1994, Jean Echenoz, Double Jeopardy. From the entry unijambist
• He picked up his dispatch-case, mildewed under the buckles, from the desk-chair in the lounge, and walked to the door which led from the flat to the world of boys.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 44. From the entry dispatch case
• On opening the mildewed door, he flashed a tunnel of light down the passage, uncarpeted and dreary, which ended in a broad, straight, wooden staircase leading to the upper floor.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry mildewed

Meaning of mildew

1. noun A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.
2. verb To taint with mildew.
3. verb To become tainted with mildew.

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Questions about mildew in a sentence

How do you use mildew in a sentence?

Mildew is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The onus is on the landlord to make sure the walls are protected from mildew.”

What is a short sentence with mildew?

“High school locker rooms smell from sweat, mildew, roachicide, and pimple cream.”

What does mildew mean?

Mildew means a growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.