How to Use molder in a Sentence

molder

verb

• Weariness was in the air, along with the smell of sweat, urine and moldering trash.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• These missives were moldering in the basement, packed away like so much of the past that Pop would rather put behind him.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• The dolls are moldering in a warehouse in California as the team decides what to dos with them.
  — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• But much of a bumper crop of cotton sat moldering in the fields, and livestock losses were substantial.
  — Kevin Sack, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2017
• The rest had been sent below, where their bodies moldered and their bones fought with subterranean creatures.
  — Terri Schlichenmeier, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2018
• Reeling from decades of decline, the area was a patchwork of potholed streets, weeded lots, moldering homes and drive-thru liquor marts.
  — Desperation Town, ProPublica, 11 May 2020
• This is more important in warm weather when wet seeds can molder.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 2 Feb. 2021
• There’s a moldering red cooler, a beat-up blue kiddie pool, a pornography stash spilling onto the street.
  — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
• On a recent afternoon, the ring tone cut through the din of a cafe in Jodhpur’s old city, a maze of arched windows and carved doorways gently moldering in the dust and heat.
  — Author: Shashank Bengali, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2018
• The cost to the Treasury was lower and there were no bothersome surpluses moldering in storage.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
• By one estimate, as many as two million fur coats moldered away in storehouses and were available to any taker.
  — Jennifer Le Zotte, Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2017
• By one estimate, as many as two million fur coats moldered away in storehouses and were available to any taker.
  — Jennifer Le Zotte, Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2017
• Maybe your Social Security card moldered away years ago in your sock drawer.
  — Adam Vaccaro, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Millions of documents were burned; millions more were left soaking wet, and soon began to molder in the muggy Missouri heat.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2019
• The books were moldering under inches of dust in an unheated, uncooled limbo.
  — Mark Greif, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2016
• But the Alvarado was torn down in 1970, and other Harvey Houses, like the Castañeda, were moved, repurposed or left to molder.
  — Susan Spano, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2019
• The antic Schwitters, by contrast, barks like a dog, sleeps in a basket and, for lack of better material, makes sculptures out of porridge that then molder and turn green.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• The conventions here are just a little too moldered, like the recycled facewear Ghostface repurposes.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 8 Mar. 2023
• In one piece, Nuanced outsider, Yao considers the problem of ocean pollution with a striking visual: a bunch of moldering teddy bears.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2019
• Instead, the prized heirloom has moldered inside an autopsy folder ever since.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2017
• But the scale of the land deal at Dara Sakor — which secures 20 percent of Cambodia’s coastline for 99 years — has raised eyebrows, especially since the portion of the project built so far is already moldering in malarial jungle.
  — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2019
• For more than a century, Civil War generals, politicians and athletes moldered in their graves largely unnoticed in the middle of Covington.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 20 July 2017
• Many Trabants can be found moldering in fields in Europe where farm animals have learned the Duroplast siding was actually edible.
  — Greg Mellen, Orange County Register, 3 Jan. 2017
• Better the revelatory sunglasses molder in cardboard crates than be wasted on those losers.
  — Jonathan Lethem, Slate Magazine, 9 Aug. 2017
• On that — and later visits to the immense building — Mr. Demesmaeker discovered a warren of rooms and anterooms, some occupied by lawyers or judges, others abandoned and moldering.
  — Sarah Hurtes, New York Times, 9 June 2023
• Soon there was hardly room in his moldering Cotswolds mansion for his second wife, Elizabeth, who eventually moved to a boardinghouse in Torquay, an English working-class seaside resort.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• Quarantine — forced isolation — has left people moldering.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 May 2020
• The Upper Mojave Desert is like some terrifying postapocalyptic dream: abandoned gas stations covered with hieroglyphic graffiti, battered highways streaked with moldering roadkill.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 14 Oct. 2015
• Weariness was in the air, along with the smell of sweat, urine and moldering trash.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• These missives were moldering in the basement, packed away like so much of the past that Pop would rather put behind him.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 6 Feb. 2018

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