MUSTY in a Sentence

Learn MUSTY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for MUSTY, such as:

1. The room smelled musty and stale.
2. The day had grown sultry, and in the windows of the grocers' shops musty biscuits lay bleaching.
3. Just as clothes dried outside adopt fresh air odors, so do clothes dried in musty basements, the more common scenario.
4. There was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere and the rooms were musty as though they hadn't been aired for many days.

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 Meanings and Examples of MUSTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
musty
 a.  stale in odor or taste; dull; out of date; antiquated; out of use; rusty
Classic Sentence:
1  The earth smelled musty and close; but we did not somehow seem to mind, for our attention was concentrated on the Professor.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
2  The day had grown sultry, and in the windows of the grocers' shops musty biscuits lay bleaching.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
3  Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In ARABY
4  There was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere and the rooms were musty as though they hadn't been aired for many days.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
5  This is my little bedroom; rather musty, but Barnard's is musty.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXI
6  During my researches in the Leviathanic histories, I stumbled upon an ancient Dutch volume, which, by the musty whaling smell of it, I knew must be about whalers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
7  So, he heaved a sigh over the recollections he awakened; and being, happily for himself, an absent old gentleman, buried them again in the pages of the musty book.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  Just as clothes dried outside adopt fresh air odors, so do clothes dried in musty basements, the more common scenario.
2  The room smelled musty and stale.