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Examples of green mold in a Sentence
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What Slattery conjures instead, for some reason, is a continual sourness and decay, which gets into every crevice of the action; Jay, who works at a subs franchise, saves money by buying out-of-date cheese and meat, scabrous with green mold.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
The ivories were already covered in green mold.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2022
Envy spread like green mold.
—Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
The Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook, by the food-waste pioneer Dana Gunders, gives detailed practical advice, such as scraping a half-inch below blue-green mold on hard cheese to safely recover the rest.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2022
On various pieces of furniture, coin-sized patches of bright green mold that sprouted up only get bigger each day.
—Erica Lee, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
Good sterile technique can mean the difference between a pound of fresh mushrooms and jars full of green mold.
—Joanna Steinhardt, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
One was coated in dried flowers from the Austrian Alps and another was speckled in a blueish-green mold.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2019
The resort was cited for 15 health code violations last year, among them for salmon being served without proper parasite destruction and an ice machine accumulating a black/green mold-like substance.
—Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 10 July 2018
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Word History
First Known Use
1857, in the meaning defined above
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“Green mold.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/green%20mold. Accessed 13 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
green mold
noun
: a mold (as a penicillium) that is green or produces green spores
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