How to Use molder in a Sentence

molder

1 of 2 verb
  • Weariness was in the air, along with the smell of sweat, urine and moldering trash.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • This is more important in warm weather when wet seeds can molder.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 2 Feb. 2021
  • But then a fresh corpse turns up, as well as a long-moldering skeleton, and the club members are off and running.
    — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The story picks up a year or so later, with the Slough House staff still moldering.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Its vaulted ceiling was slowly moldering, and the floor was covered in dust and debris.
    — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • There’s a moldering red cooler, a beat-up blue kiddie pool, a pornography stash spilling onto the street.
    — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Maybe your Social Security card moldered away years ago in your sock drawer.
    — Adam Vaccaro, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The books were moldering under inches of dust in an unheated, uncooled limbo.
    — Mark Greif, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2016
  • They were set in crumbling castles and moldering dungeons—that is, amid the rubble of a collapsing social order.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • The cost to the Treasury was lower and there were no bothersome surpluses moldering in storage.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
  • 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
  • Rolston added that the type of pests a moldering stump can attract aren’t an issue that will necessarily affect that old stump alone—the pest problem can spread.
    — Steven John, Architectural Digest, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Better the revelatory sunglasses molder in cardboard crates than be wasted on those losers.
    — Jonathan Lethem, Slate Magazine, 9 Aug. 2017
  • 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 bodies of their mothers, fathers, grandparents, children and babies had moldered in a room-temperature building in Colorado.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The spooky environs created by production designer Til Frohlich are the stuff nightmares are made of; the murky bathtub, moldering linens and secret compartments that go bump in the night.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 2 May 2026
  • The spooky environs created by production designer Til Frohlich are the stuff nightmares are made of; the murky bathtub, moldering linens and secret compartments that go bump in the night.
    — Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 1 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • After a snack in the exhibit’s café, we were fortified to wander our way back to the hotel, stopping by famous bookstore Libreria Acqua Alta to visit the shop cats and climb the moldering tower of books out back.
    — Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Stored for decades in shipping containers left moldering in Texas, Luna Luna was purchased and partially restored by an entrepreneurial team that includes the mega-rich rapper Drake.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
  • 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

molder

2 of 2 noun
  • Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
    — Katarina Avendaño, Good Housekeeping, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Some neologisms never make it out of the realm of private conversation, and some molder in the corners of academic journals as useless jargon.
    — Madeline Ostrander, The Atlantic, 23 July 2022
  • His group was presenting the third iteration of their SME, short for shredder, molder, extruder.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
  • While his wife molders at home, Jan runs the business and goes on tiger-hunting expeditions with Karel, a brown-skinned boy with a white-boy’s name and a little emperor’s sense of entitlement.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 25 Aug. 2023
  • My colleagues in the Lebanese capital, like countless other Beirutis, had their windows blown out and homes wrecked after a warehouse fire set off a vast store of ammonium nitrate that authorities had left to molder.
    — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2021
  • According to them—and to a nearly 100-year-old game of telephone—construction in the Bay Area hit such a fever pitch when the condo was built in 1929 that finding a crown molder proved impossible.
    — Allison Duncan, Architectural Digest, 3 June 2026

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