Synonyms

1. moss-grown

Sentence Examples

1. When he felt they had gone far enough from the Manor, Calder led her to a mossy area under a large tree and sat down.
2. A willowy woman with huge mossy eyes and long, hair the color of young pea pods, smiled back at me.
3. Cantona squatted at what looked like a tuft of mossy weeds the width of a dustbin lid, and lifted it to reveal stairs dropping into a jet-black cavern.
4. Huddled masses that looked like mossy boulders slept, piled atop one another.
5. He was huge, with silver skin wrought by mossy green tattoos and a spiked tail.
6. Divan, walls, ceiling, floor, were all covered with magnificent skins as soft and downy as the richest carpets there were heavy-maned lion-skins from Atlas, striped tiger-skins from Bengal panther-skins from the Cape, spotted beautifully, like those that appeared to Dante bear-skins from Siberia, fox-skins from Norway, and so on and all these skins were strewn in profusion one on the other, so that it seemed like walking over the most mossy turf, or reclining on the most luxurious bed.
7. Time, which encrusts all physical substances with its mossy mantle, as it invests all things of the mind with forgetfulness, seemed to have respected these signs, which apparently had been made with some degree of regularity, and probably with a definite purpose.
8. Green, mossy plants grew on the floor and halfway up the walls.
9. I leaned down, squinting as I tried to make out the shape of the object between the mossy stones.
10. The shrubbery on my left blew to smithereens as sticks and mossy chunks pelted my body.