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How to use mould in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Mould means commonwealth standard spelling of mold. Example: “Some moulds prefer to live on bread, but others are epixylous.”

Examples of mould by meaning

nounCommonwealth standard spelling of mold.

  • The portals are being constructed in situ, using a moveable mould that is made up of three parts.2024 March 20, Chris Howe, “High speed underneath the Chilterns...”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 33

verbCommonwealth standard spelling of mold.

  • The village is dotted with trees moulded into weird shapes by the wind, and above the trees rise the vicarage chimneystacks resembling miniature church towers.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 288

More sentences with mould

  • Some moulds prefer to live on bread, but others are epixylous.From the entry epixylous
  • Commercial vegetable rennets usually contain rennet from the mould Rhizomucor miehei.From the entry vegetable rennet
  • She scooped up a mittenful of snow and began to mould it into a snowball.From the entry mittenful
  • If you underdry the cut hay, then it may develop mould in storage.From the entry underdry
  • Condensation is a challenge that has to be carefully planned for in home-building, to avoid problems such as mould and structural damage.From the entry condensation
  • These prototype biocomputers use slime moulds to solve a range of geometrical problems.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 71. From the entry biocomputer
  • Some fungi (such as Penicillium moulds) used to lichenise but don't any more; they have de-lichenised.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 97. From the entry lichenise
  • The hyper-masculinity, optimism and enthusiastic boomerism of the American frontier moulded the young Briton's character.2016, Neil Evans, edited by Huw Pryce, Writing a Small Nation's Past, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry boomerism
  • So I kept taking them out of the fridge and drinking a bit out of the mould.2014, Pamela Butchart, The Spy Who Loved School Dinners, Nosy Crow, →ISBN. From the entry Winnie the Pooh
  • These soils have plenty of nutritive mould, by which the roots are nourished.2010, Verena Winiwarter, “The Art of Making the Earth Fruitful: Medieval and Early Modern Improvements of Soil Fertility”, in Scott…. From the entry esculent
  • Couching involves transferring the sheet of paper from the mould to the felt.2003, Josep Asunción, The Complete Book of Papermaking, New York, N.Y.: Lark Books, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry couching
  • Then place the mould upside down on a tray covered with alfoil.1997, Rhondda Cleary, Fragrant Candles, page 10. From the entry alfoil
  • The wax will slide down the mould and collect on the foil.1997, Rhondda Cleary, Fragrant Candles, page 10. From the entry alfoil
  • Mix in the thin cream-cheesey dressing and divide this combination between the centres of the three moulds.1989, Claire Macdonald of Macdonald, “Anniversaries”, in Celebrations, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry cream-cheesey
  • The mould for this bizarre landscape was set even before the Ice Ages began.1983, Richard Mabey, “The Tides of March”, in In a Green Shade: Essays on Landscape 1970–1983, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, part two…. From the entry Cornishperson
  • Season with cayenne pepper, salt, and mould it with ordinary butterspoons.1917, Mrs. Fred. B. Aronson, Twentieth-century Cookery Practice (page 215). From the entry butterspoon
  • What scheme wouldn't he compass to mould that girl to his wishes.1915, The Wireless Age, volume 2, page 580. From the entry compass
  • This line is known as a mitre line, and the intersecting arrises of the moulding, the mitre.1914, George R. Barham, Masonry: an Elementary Text-book for Students in Trade Schools and Apprentices, page 23. From the entry mitre line
  • There might have been no planking beneath the mould, for all that our feet could feel.1912, William Hope Hodgson, The Derelict. From the entry fitment
  • The spewing or moulding of upper leather is something that causes considerable annoyance.1907, Shoe Retailer and Boots and Shoes Weekly, volume 63, page 65. From the entry spew
  • Made from seaweed, peas and konjac root and shaped using specialist moulds, it is being trialled in its native Switzerland first.2021 October 16, Zoe Wood, “Faux fish: vegan alternatives set to take UK market by storm”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry konjac
  • Slime moulds on Earth were a common research subject.2019, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin, Macmillan, page 453. From the entry slime mould
  • If you have silicon moulds, you can bake them in those, but otherwise just use a cupcake tin and paper cases.2016 February 17, Tamal Ray, The Guardian. From the entry paper case
  • The placing of the mould immediately after casting into a bin filled with charcoal helps to recarburise the surface.2015, John Campbell, Complete Casting Handbook, →ISBN. From the entry recarburise
  • Mould was growing in the seams of his coat, and dust, like beggars' velvet, lay on the nap.2011, Chris Nickson, Broken Token. From the entry beggars' velvet
  • A misrun is caused when the metal is unable to fill the mould cavity completely and thus leaves unfilled cavities.2010, K. L. Narayana, Production Technology, page 71. From the entry misrun
  • There were bits of a vaulted roof with panelled fanwork and moulded ribs, recalling the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster.2008, Geoffrey Ashe, King Arthur's Avalon: The Story of Glastonbury, Sutton Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 289. From the entry fanwork
  • Flatterers were indeed beginning to wonder whether Edward I was not a new Arthur in the mould of Merlinic prophecies.2000, R. R. Davies, The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles, 1093–1343, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry prophecy
  • If the product isn't in a good environment it will get wet, and mould and frost will damage it.2000, Carolyn Blackman, “A Lot to Learn: ‘Nowhere Else in the World is It Like This!’”, in China Business: The Rules of the Game, Crows…. From the entry plum rains
  • He was edetic in his approach to ideologies and therefore, he could not be fixed to any particular mould or stereotype.1995, Janata - Volume 50, Issues 19-31. From the entry edetic
  • But English society is no monolith, and it is a gross simplification to force it into one mould.1984, Joan Thirsk, “Preface”, in The Rural Economy of England (History Series; 25), London: The Hambledon Press, →ISBN, page vi. From the entry monolith
  • He commissioned the proprietor of an ancient lorry to deliver a load of turf mould to the rear of the hall.1984, John B. Keane, Man of the Triple Name, Brandon, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry tatarara
  • The cab roof is a double-skin glass-fibre moulding.1960 February, “High-Voltage Electric Locomotive for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, pages 123, 125. From the entry moulding
  • Their exquisitely moulded faces were the colour of wheatmeal porridge slightly browned, with numerous freckles as the bran.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 209. From the entry wheatmeal
  • But it contended that the school must mould the child.1927, Alexander Sutherland Neill, The Problem Child, page 209. From the entry free school
  • They moulded a man out of damp earth and infused into his veins the red gum of the kumpang-tree.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 14. From the entry kumpang
  • The crowd melts, but melts only to flow again next morning into the same gigantic mould of passion.1909, James Douglas, Adventures in London, page 330. From the entry manscape
  • Hereditary conscience, passing through this fierce crucible, lay levigable before Goethe, to be swept away into dust-hole or moulded into the image of reason.2020, Moncure D. Conway, The Mythology of the Devil. From the entry levigable

Meaning of mould

  1. noun Commonwealth standard spelling of mold.
  2. noun Commonwealth spelling of mold (“growth of tiny fungi”).
  3. verb Commonwealth spelling of mold (“to cause to become mouldy”).

Full definition of mould

Questions about mould in a sentence

How do you use mould in a sentence?
Mould is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Some moulds prefer to live on bread, but others are epixylous.”
What is a short sentence with mould?
“The cab roof is a double-skin glass-fibre moulding.”
What does mould mean?
Mould means commonwealth standard spelling of mold.

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