(superl.) Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.
() See Mold, Molder, Moldy, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lung diseases in farmers attributable to their occupation include (a) farmer's lung, caused by exposure to mouldy hay, (b) the asthma caused by exposure to grain dust and (c) silo-filler's disease.
(2) Before a diagnosis of farmers' lung due to mouldy hay is made in any patient whether or not precipitins to Micropolyspora faeni are present, skin tests for storage mite should be made.
(3) He has left the gas on in the past and accumulates mouldy fruit.
(4) The biggest challenge in today’s society is to smile tightly and explain yet again to your mum that yes, your friend from school married a banker and bought a three-bedroom house in Surrey, but no, you can’t afford to move out of your mouldy flatshare just yet.
(5) The difference in the mean titre was not due to the differences between the study groups in age, sex, smoking habits, atopic background, frequency of handling of plant materials, or time interval from the most recent handling of visibly mouldy hay.
(6) There was no quantitative association between the proportion of bright green-yellow fluorescent, purple or mouldy kernels and the mycotoxin contents of the composite samples.
(7) With the aid of the electron microscope, a number of histopathological changes in the liver of mice caused by mycotoxins from mouldy hay were examined and studied.
(8) Thus, zygomycetes are the main cause of macroscopically apparent mycotic lymphadenitis, a sporadic disease most probably caused by feeding with mouldy food stuffs.
(9) Two patients with allergic alveolitis due to mouldy hay antigens (farmer's lung) were shown to have malabsorption due to coeliac disease.
(10) They lived in crowded, mouldy tents, where guards conducted regular, prison-like searches, and limited their showers to two minutes, before forcing them out.
(11) Histopathology of lungs from animals exposed to mouldy hay demonstrated the presence of alveolar cell infiltrates and early granulomas, that were similar to allergic alveolitis (AA).
(12) The material was usually described as extremely mouldy and the episodes were usually provoked by unusual work tasks such as cleaning grain bins or removing mouldy feed.
(13) He was magnificent as the mouldy old white-haired janitor, master of the mop and bucket, supervising an invisible gathering to hear the very last message for humanity.
(14) The hazards involved through the consumption of individuals to such mouldy bread, is accumulation of possible deleterious effects from both long and short term exposure to these toxic metabolites.
(15) A number of findings testify that the mass occurrence of mucormycosis followed the feeding of mouldy bakery wastes on the basis of acidosis.
(16) Evaluation of biological activity and toxicity of the extractives and the effects of prolonged ingestion of the mouldy seeds by animals suggest that the infected seeds may present high toxin-risk to humans.
(17) Eleven of the patients had farmer's lung and two had been exposed to other mouldy dust.
(18) The presence of precursor compounds for the formation of nitrosamine in the mouldy maize flour and their significance in respect to the etiology of esophageal cancer in high-risk areas have been discussed.
(19) The bread will go mouldy, and I'll come home at night and instead of making a meal for someone who doesn't want it and prefers instant noodles, I can have Ryvita and cheese, and eat apples.
(20) After 30 months in mouldy tents and now in the community where we are not accepted, some of us now have travel papers which give us the freedom to leave.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A letter signed by refugees on Nauru asking for the New Zealand government to consider them for resettlement.
Stale
Definition:
(n.) The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
(v. i.) Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.
(v. i.) Not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread.
(v. i.) Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.
(v. i.) Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.
(v. t.) To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.
(a.) To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle.
(v. i.) That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.
(v. i.) A prostitute.
(v. i.) Urine, esp. that of beasts.
(v. t.) Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.
(v. t.) A stalking-horse.
(v. t.) A stalemate.
(v. t.) A laughingstock; a dupe.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
(2) That rock-star treatment then gets paid off with stale one-liners from the previous decade that sound like they were organized by shuffling notecards.
(3) Inside the carriage the temperature was stifling, the stench of unwashed bodies and stale urine overwhelming.
(4) In the first comments from Epstein’s representatives since the Guardian revealed on Friday that the prince had been named in a Florida court motion, an attorney for the disgraced financier said: “These are stale, rehashed allegations that lawyers are now attempting to repackage and spice up by adding the names of prominent people.” Virginia Roberts, who says she was 17 when she first met the Duke of York in London, claims she was forced to have sexual contact with him by Epstein, in London, New York and on his private island in the Caribbean during an “orgy”.
(5) Though the Bond series was in anything but trouble before Mendes’ arrival – and Craig’s – there was the sense of a certain amount of staleness towards the end of Pierce Brosnan’s run.
(6) The PassivHaus pioneers have focused on improving insulation, providing far better air-tightness and warming incoming air in winter, with the hotter stale air extracted from the house.
(7) Male, pale and stale is the epithet often used to describe the makeup of a charity board.
(8) The abortifacient property seems to decrease as the fruit becomes stale or ripe.
(9) He knew all about unconscious bias, was attuned to issues of diversity and was passionate about changing middle management composition which he said was “too male, stale and pale”.
(10) He resolutely refused to sit on the fence, and staleness, caused by watching stream upon stream of bad movies as well as good ones, never set in.
(11) Stale, flat and, alas, rapidly becoming unprofitable...” “What was he like as a person?” asked Dalgliesh.
(12) If you’re not bothered about instructions in another language, misprinted labels or biscuits that may be several months past their peak quality – but not stale – you can stock up for a fraction of the price you might pay in a regular shop.
(13) The measure of humidity, of peroxides and of the staleness of crumb are favourable for a good conservation.
(14) Overhead lights attached to ripped-out electrical wires hang suspended in the stale air and fading wallpaper peels off the walls like dead skin.
(15) For every 10 party hacks there were one or two sublime dissidents or innovators – Polanski and Wajda in Poland, Jancsó in Hungary, Dušan Makavejev in Yugoslavia – and we shouldn't throw out all these beautiful babies with the stale red bath water.
(16) Teams such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile and Algeria blew fresh air through the stale halls of international football's establishment with their teamwork and counter attacking flair.
(17) Northern Irish businesses are now able to trade across Europe, more people from across Europe have settled here and have provided a fresh perspective from the stale old sectarian divisions that Northern Ireland has been cursed with.
(18) This is welcome, as we believe that we offer a real alternative to the politics of austerity and the stale dogma of the Westminster parties.
(19) Americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the same stale mindset that led to failed policies like Obamacare.
(20) He should leave behind stale orthodoxies and trust his instinct that change is essential.