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Sentence Examples Often the first indication that a microorganism problem exists is a characteristic musty odor. In that room you breathed books, that musty paper odor of yellowing pages and crumbling bindings. The familiar, musty odor of monkey fur at close quarters fills my nostrils. The smell of the musty books filled my nose and I felt I was in the clouds as I heard his pronouncement. As it was, she had a thin, lumpy wool cloak, riddled with holes despite its distinct, musty smell of mothballs, to prop up her head upon. Her character portraits are cold and bloodless, and her self-conscious literary tone has the musty odor of a vanity-press poetry journal. A musty lounge lizard in a worn drape suit, he looks as if he's been with the organisation since the Sixties. His rather musty, tweedy jacket made him look oddly like a careers adviser. The family checks into a gloomy hotel outside the city, with Harry and Dudley sharing a musty room. Anyway, what with all these musty old cellars there was a bit of a rat problem. The inside of the cabin was rather gloomy and had a musty, old mouldy smell about it. Brown vinegar also works well in smelly cupboards, especially those that have a musty or mouldy odour. The corridors were very dimly lit, and there was an ancient smell of musty decay. In my mind I see the shelves of books and smell the musty fragrance of paper. Hurrying into the heart of the library, the musty smell of old ink and rotting paper curled around her nostrils. The damp musty smell in the air suggested we were still in the base, though it seemed impossible for most of it was destroyed. The old wooden stairs gave way to concrete, and a foul musty smell filled the air. He wiped the sleep from his eyes and swallowed, trying to clear the musty taste from his mouth. Furthermore, discerning customers would notice the taste, which is known to be uniquely earthy, musty and almost syrupy. It let out a bellow of rage and shook its large head back and forth, throwing a fine spray of slobber through the musty air. Show More Sentences Set up by the city's most famous poet in 1919, it still retains the musty, order-through-chaos atmosphere of a true bibliophile's den. Something about him she didn't like, his jaunty airs, the straw cowboy hat placed raggedly atop his musty brown crop of hair. Ravenna hurried to the cupboard and got in, wrinkling her nose at the musty smell of old, dry paper that was pervading the cupboard. The attic was musty, wooden, with a low ceiling that reached its peak at the center and sloped gently toward the sides. Inside the building is the usual musty pioneer furniture, silverware and old photographs of men in hats and women in white dresses. The room smelled musty, and the three stone walls had moss growing in the cracks. The musty, moth-eaten curtains, once a grand crimson, were now dull brown and drooping listlessly. So I said I had to go and he clasped me in his musty arms and told me I was an incredible person with a fierce inner light of joy. The place smelled musty and damp, even though it was at the end of a hot, dusty canyon. The next moment, the musty smell of stale tobacco and ancient dust drifted through the darkness, and he half-opened his eyes. The air tasted musty and stale so I hooked the corner of the canvas cover up so the air could flow through. Ovenbirds give off a unique musty odor that is thought to come from the oil in the uropygial gland. One might wonder why someone would go nosing around a musty corner to buy an old dog-eared book instead of buying crisp, gleaming copies. A pop song from the 1980s played on the speakers, a musty oldie, something about childhood, a song about innocence. Someone was living in the three servant's rooms adjoining the kitchen but the rest of the house lay musty under faded holland covers. The pitcher plant attracts insects through the reddish colour and musty smell of its leaves. The curtains may have shut, but no one switched you off and packed you up with props and costumes in a musty room. It's been a slow process, but his many operas, long considered musty and unstageable relics of the past, are once again hit shows everywhere. So, trapped in the musty atmosphere of planet earth, they appear clumsy and fragile. Dark, dank and musty, it was the perfect breeding ground for countless deadly germs and diseases. Show More Sentences If this is just a musty smell, then vacuuming it out and masking it with potpourri or airing it out for a while might help. Before them lay a ladder down into a musty basement that was obviously not listed on the building plans. Don't buy a tree that is losing green needles, or has dry, brittle twigs or a sour, musty smell. A musty aroma of hunter's stew filled her nostrils, and the sour smell of soggy, rotten straw was almost unbearable all of a sudden. You might have thought that wool meant a heavy, cumbersome, musty olive drab green blanket. There's nothing musty or fusty about a passion for old, rare, or out-of-print books, Janette insists. She glanced at the dark and dank interior of the slightly musty establishment. I tear past him when the door swings open, suddenly high by the scent of dank, musty, old house. A slightly dank scent filled my nose, the scent of our musty room in the morning, and I coughed quietly. Now the musty walls are reeking only of Darren Clarke and the pungent whiff of his cheroot. He yawned and inhaled the dusty, musty air that he had become so familiar with over the last five years. Pearl woke up with sunrise the next morning in a dark, musty cell in the bilge of the large ship. Steve then proceeded to rant and rave at the musty defendant who, taking his lawyer's advice, kept well shtum. On the nose there are bags of ripe yeast underlined by musty hayshed flavours. A sheet left inside suitcase luggage or travel baggage can prevent musty odors. I can remember the smell of wintergreen, and the musty smell of my first sheepskin jacket. I am in the musty storage bow of a sailless schooner on the murky waters of the river Styx. The stables were quiet and musty, and the air was thick with the warm smell of horses. The scent and taste of mace is often described as peppery or musty with an almost mentholated note. The halls had a slight musty odor and there were spots where pictures used to hang from the walls. Show More Sentences They have a characteristic musty odor that is detectable when large numbers are present or when the bugs are crushed. Commonsense shrieked at me not to let a drop pass my lips, but it was irresistible, like musty goat's cheese straight from the liquidizer. While many await discovery in musty warehouses, there is at least one piece whose absence is more difficult to explain. It smelt dank and musty, like a cave which the sea entered regularly. Having rectified that, it's now firmly on my list of places I wouldn't mind living if a hitherto unsuspected wealthy great-aunt died and left me her musty manse. As always, the scent of musty pages and old bindings, mixed with the aroma of coffee, washed over me, and I stopped for a second to breathe it in. He reached the bottom and choked on the dank musty smell that greeted him. Lynx could feel a presence getting stronger and stronger, but no warmth was carried from it on the breeze, just a musty stench like dank seaweed and carcasses. No one had visited here for a long time and everything was covered by a thick layer of dust and the musty smell that accompanied a dwelling no one inhabited anymore. It's big, dark, and smells as dank and musty as you'd expect of a place that's piled from floor to ceiling with stack after stack of surplus military clothing. Other offensive odours can come from areas such as the refrigerator, garbage bins, including indoor compost buckets, musty drawers and even shoes. John, an English expat who practises an obscure form of spiritual therapy, lives and works surrounded by musty books, bottles of vodka, and a disconnected telephone. How can the council say that this family are not a priority when they are living in mouldy, musty, damp conditions with a two-week old baby and a son who has asthma? I glanced around, at the musty bookshelves and shuttered windows. Some people remain surprised that in this modern age we should still be ruled over by any sort of royalty, as the whole bejewelled charade smacks of musty old deference. Far from worrying about musty family skeletons in aristocratic cupboards, noble pedigrees are advertised and the smallest cup-full of blue blood proudly proclaimed. But the creatures did, it appears, spend their last days on a planet as hot and musty as a gym locker room. The bungalow was damp with a musty smell but Rod didn't care. Quickly climbing the musty stairs to the executive offices, I sought out an old acquaintance. In the meantime, she is off to Egypt on assignment and he continues his research in the musty clime of an Oxford library. Show More Sentences There was a stitched netting of spiderwebs in the heavy rafters, gray whorls of them thick with dust, and the musty odor of kerosene from the lamp upon his chiffarobe faintly sharpened the air. The musty, barky smell of fresh rain fallen on the dry earth is petrichor. The basement smelled musty, like rusted tools and damp cellar water. He smelled musty and damp, like the cardboard box he presumably lived in. The musty smell of old books filled the air as I turned the ancient pages. The first sign of corkiness is a musty smell reminiscent of wet cardboard. The ceilings had water stains and gave off a musty moldy smell. Stoats are members of the mustelid family and mustelid translates as musty smell. His apartment does have the musty aroma of a used-books store. A still summer night a world away in a house that smells of cactus and dust and musty kapok. Malassezia is a common yeast which grows in dog ears, causing the musty smell. Fin de siecle suspenser has atmosphere and a classy veneer, but is really kind of stagey and musty. The place was dark and musty, and the same sullen guard lazed about in his dandruffy blazer. Beansprouts are popular, though I switched these for alfalfa shoots as I find beansprouts always taste a bit musty. This oil is created in a stomach organ known as a proventriculus from digested prey items by most Procellariiformes, and gives them their distinctive musty smell. To step out into the garage and see them stacked there, and smell their familiar, musty, cardboardy smell fills me with exhilaration and excitement. So, the old jacket smells rather musty, and the oil that was spilt on it while you were maintaining the exercise bicycle retains a certain pungency. As a tender young faglet, I had sense enough to cache my musty copies of International Male and Penthouse beneath the false bottom of my chest of drawers. Some people do not like these due to a musty odor when they reach overripeness, but we find they make a delicious syrup for our sourdough pancakes. Cork taint can give wine a musty or nasty taste, resulting in waste. Show More Sentences The air in a cask is musty, or mustied, because it is bound or confined. It was dark and musty, the carpet giving off an olid smell of mildew. A musty smell swells from the mounted lark, blitheless in spirit. At the base this vent was dark, cool, and smelled of dry, musty dust. It zigzagged so that he could not see ahead more than a few yards at a time. The stout-bottomed, musty green flask was found by divers on July 7 in a sunken wreckage off the coast of the Wadden Sea, between the Dutch coast and the North Sea. From New York's musty bashments to Kingston's vigorous sessions, men have dominated dancehall for decades, despite the efforts of a bounty of gifted female deejays. A second excavation occurred in the 1950s under John W G Musty and Philip Rahtz. Examples from Classical Literature Or the gustatory romance of Cheddar cheese, musty ale, roast lamb and greens. She foresaw the musty room to which she was going, the slatternly incubus of a man. These form better coverings than straw or haulm, which is liable to become musty, and communicate the effect to the roots. The atmosphere of the place was cold and musty and suggestive of a charnel house. It is stained with seawater, and emits the musty smell which tells of immersion. Since our departure from Candy on the 9th, our only food had consisted of raw rice, which latterly had become musty and mildewed. What fun it was to dig him out, and ventilate his musty nest of fish-bones! The house was over-warm, and there was a musty smell of over-aged furniture, old leather, and the pungence of mothballs. The beams rose high above their heads, and a musty smell of tarlatan and muslin and cheese-cloth filled the air. He was breathing in great gasps, and the air he breathed was thick and musty. At your age the learning and comparing of musty laws 19 would have been dull work for me. But when fortune favored him, Mr. gallivant didn't bother with musty old law books. Oat-straw is, I have found, the best of all straws to re-stuff myself with when my interior gets musty or out of shape. It was still musty, close, and frowzy, with half-awakened passengers. So I, too, scratch the land with my brief endeavour and flash my name across a page of legal script ere I pass and the page grows musty. A breath of dampness wafts to me The musty odour of the vault. And about his shelves, A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds. You would have us go and live in that damp, musty, fusty place? Or do we stay hidden here like frightened chicks until the war is over and the Baron returns to let us out of this musty hole? The odor and taste should be fresh and clean and not musty or moldy. Show More Sentences I took these out, and discovered a little dress, musty and mildewed. Your bank-notes had a musty odour, as if they were fast decomposing into rags again. Dear me, George, have you brought that musty old paper up here? During my researches in the leviathanic histories, I stumbled upon an ancient Dutch volume, which, by the musty whaling smell of it, I knew must be about whalers. Alone in his musty office in the Heffner Block above the Paris Dry Goods Company's store, he worked ceaselessly, building up something that he himself destroyed. From this crawling flapping mass of obscene reptilian life came the shocking clamor which filled the air and the mephitic, horrible, musty odor which turned us sick. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of musty? Words that rhyme with musty What is the adverb for musty? What is the adjective for musty? What is the noun for musty? Translations for musty Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words must've must take must-sees must-see musts must-read Mut muta mutability mutable mutagen mutagenesis 5-letter Words Starting With m mu mus must