mildew

How To Use mildew In A Sentence

• In recent years the Grahams have had to put up with freezing cold, mildew and woodworm.
• Some are prone to mildew and wilt; avoid tall kinds. Winter Garden Glory
• Use 100% polyester thread to help prevent the thread from mildewing.
• How can I stop powdery mildew ruining my soft fruits and vegetables? Times, Sunday Times
• The timing corresponds with the formation of spores in a funguslike pathogen that attacks the plant and results in a condition known as downy mildew disease. NYT > Home Page
• Through the open windows the heavy, damp night came miasmically floating in, the very cigarettes mildewed in my pockets. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
• Common onion diseases include damping off, botrytis leaf blight, downy mildew, and bacterial blight.
• I can feel the stuff I don't say rotting inside me like mildewy spuds in a sack," he says.
• There was a wind blowing down here, unlikely as that seemed, and it smelled not of small, mildewed rooms, but of wide green spaces. COLDHEART CANYON
• Park Seed Co. sells a zinnia called Profusion Double White that is billed as heat-tolerant and resistant to powdery mildew. New to planting flowers? Start simple, like zinnias