musty

How To Use musty In A Sentence

• It had this atmosphere of being a bit fusty, musty and middle class. Times, Sunday Times
• And classical reminiscences have, even with him, a dull musty tinge which recalls the antiquarian in his Cambridge college-rooms rather than the visitor to Florence and Rome. Proserpine and Midas
• Poe had been a musty relic, someone she was forced to read in high school, nothing more than " nevermore. IN A STRANGE CITY
• Trevelyan himself was present, bent with age, his musty gown fraying at the edges - emblematic, I remember thinking, of an old order passing.
• 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.
• The musty, barky smell of fresh rain fallen on the dry earth is petrichor.
• It had this atmosphere of being a bit fusty, musty and middle class. Times, Sunday Times
• Don't buy a tree that is losing green needles, or has dry, brittle twigs or a sour, musty smell.
• These are deposited by the bugs before they settle down to digest their meals, and have a sweet odour described as ‘pepperminty’ or ‘musty’.
• The first sign of corkiness is a musty smell reminiscent of wet cardboard.