MOULD in a Sentence

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There is green mould in the grooves of the letters and yellow streaks on the marble, which come from more years than men could count.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOULD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mould
 n.  crumbling, soft, friable earth; soil
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  He showed her ten thousand new green points pushing through the mould.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  He knelt down by the hole and broke the pot from the mould.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  The thin white hands shook a little and Colin's flush grew deeper as he set the rose in the mould and held it while old Ben made firm the earth.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  For some time there was no noise but the grating sound of the spades discharging their freight of mould and gravel.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  There sat something pointed, straight out of the soft mould.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE OLD HOUSE
6  But Caroline Beaufort possessed a mind of an uncommon mould, and her courage rose to support her in her adversity.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
8  That she had done a grievous thing in taking an impressionable child to mould into the form that her wild resentment, spurned affection, and wounded pride found vengeance in, I knew full well.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIX
9  I had hoped that lighter hands than mine would help to mould her character, and that a baby-smile upon her breast might change my child-wife to a woman.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
10  As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius which comprehends the man better than he comprehends himself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
11  The grass had half taken possession of them, and a green mould covered the rest.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
12  He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
13  A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
14  There is green mould in the grooves of the letters and yellow streaks on the marble, which come from more years than men could count.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
15  And in examining their actions and lives one cannot see that they owed anything to fortune beyond opportunity, which brought them the material to mould into the form which seemed best to them.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQU...
Example Sentence:
1  Their approach to sports teaching broke the mould.
2  He doesn't fit the traditional mould of a university professor.
3  Another method, used especially for figures, was to pour the clay into a mould.
4  They poured the hot metal into the mould.
5  These huge presses mould the car bodies.
6  His brother came from a different mould, being a successful lawyer.
7  He will mould a child into an excellent basketball player.
8  He was from the same mould as the men she had gazed at worshipfully when a child: rich, handsome, of impeccable social standing.
9  At the other end are tomes containing a plethora of platitudes about breaking the mould and worshipping the kill.
10  They moulded a complete new bow section for the boat.
11  Her dress moulds to her figure.
12  A leader does not impose a decision, he moulds it.