How To Use frowsty In A Sentence
- `This is where we go down,' said Mac, counting the steps out of habit, and blinking in the frowsty yellowish light. HUMAN VOICES
- They had met the concierge when they came into the building and they had noticed the frowsty smell of stale heavy scent that came from her. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
- In these frowsty surrounding, that is positively searing.
- Placed on Diana's left at table, he gave her much voluble information about her neighbors, mostly ill-natured; he spoke familiarly of "that clever chap Marsham," as of a politician who owed his election for the division entirely to the good offices of Mr. Fred Birch's firm, and described Lady Lucy as "an old dear," though very "frowsty" in her ideas. The Testing of Diana Mallory
- Its roughcast walls are pitted; it has an air of frowsty, shut-up dereliction.
- Yet, only a year ago, the conventional wisdom was that the Golden Jubilee was likely to be a frowsty and embarrassingly ill-attended affair.
- This is a street party that has rendered the street invisible, blocking off the frowsty buildings, replacing traffic with communal tables set with vases of spring flowers, even lowering the no doubt sullen sky with a breezy foliage of flags and bunting. The big picture: a coronation street party in Islington, London, 1937
- It is easy to wear cap, helmet frowsty bad hair, send the pore muscle that time place bears a label or helmet oppresses to cause trichomadesis easily flabbily especially.
- Alas, the taverns reputation declined over the years and by 1775 Garrick was referring to the frowsty bowers of the Dog and Duck as peopled with half-drunk fauns and dryads breaking lamps. Bedlam
- Lisa Spirling's production has a frowsty, precise design by Polly Sullivan and makes a shot at an interesting question: what makes people collude with horror? Richard III; Lullaby; Hundreds & Thousands – review
