How to Use musty in a Sentence

musty

adjective
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  • The point is the paper, the poignantly musty smell of the past.
    — Jason Guriel, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The musty smell of grass, tinged with horse manure, hung in the air.
    — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 29 May 2019
  • The musty, dusty smell of old books brings me back to those moments.
    — Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
  • Not unless the potatoes taste like the back of a musty pantry.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 12 July 2018
  • The front door was open and a musty smell perfumed the sidewalk.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The gallery smells musty and has begun to attract flies and ants.
    — Roberta Smith, Martha Schwendener, Jason Farago and Will Heinrich, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • But the line is like a musty old tee-shirt the President can’t or won’t throw away.
    — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The old case files, musty smelling from years in a storage unit, speak to Sutton.
    — al, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The small shack where Millay did much of her writing had a musty smell.
    — New York Times, 14 May 2018
  • The musty shelves, richly redolent of the past, quickly calmed me.
    — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The nose shows nice, musty aromas with hazelnuts, pear and star fruit.
    — Tan Vinh and Owen Bargreen, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • This is writing the songs and singing the songs in a world not much different from a musty gym full of haters.
    — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • But that story was now a day old, a musty chyron at this point.
    — Mark Leibovich, New York Times, 23 May 2018
  • The tape reels sat there for decades, quiet and ignored in a musty cardboard box.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The books were old, musty, and set in microscopic type.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • But the poor often live in cheap, damp and musty banjiha.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The empty pie cases can be seen through a small hole in the door; put your nose near it, and the empty eatery smells musty.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The show sports another fine set by Mark Lund of a musty country abode.
    — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
  • As anyone who has walked into a musty house knows, molds can emit a strong odor, too.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 18 May 2021
  • If a car smells musty, that’s a likely sign it was exposed to water.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The chamber meets in a cavernous room with velvet curtains and a musty scent.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • People use their fine flatware and want them more at arm’s reach, not stowed high away on a shelf in a musty box.
    — Clare Miers, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Monitor the area over the next few days for the return of visible mold or musty odors.
    — Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Both sides give off the dull, musty smells of work-glove function: stale sawdust and grease pierced with top notes of gasoline.
    — Liz Arnold, Longreads, 11 July 2018
  • In the age of the internet, songs, books, movies — musty archives from the past — often rise up, and in the parlance of the day, even go viral.
    — Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • And to wet land, to those dirt streets that are not paved and where the rain falls, raising the steam along with a musty smell and a feeling of relaxation.
    — Paula Móvil, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021
  • If your allergies start acting up or there’s a musty smell in any room, that’s a tell-tale sign of mold.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Tear down the musty relic, or replace the back wall with glass, or add heliports and cruise ship docks.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Some of his customers swear by it for getting rid of stubborn pit stains and freshening up musty towels, too.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Patient and helpful archivists showed me their musty basement records room and helped me search stacks of old newspaper clippings and files of photos.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 11 July 2024

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