moulder away

It seems a pity to have them mouldering away for lack of care.

The neighbours would never have stood for a car just mouldering away out on someone's lawn.

Before the tsunami, the legislation had been mouldering away, as so many Japanese reforms do.

The car has turned out to be the mother of all barn finds, found mouldering away in a warehouse this year.

They should be in some museum, not mouldering away in this cellar.

And we dont even know whether the furnishings are in good repair or not - they might be mouldering away!

They're up in the loft, mouldering away.

Mouldering away before our eyes.

A great many of the tenements had shop-fronts; but these were fast closed, and mouldering away; only the upper rooms being inhabited.

In another place, there was a gallery of pictures: so abominably bad, that it was quite delightful to see them mouldering away.

"I know in your secret heart you want to come here and live with me but we're not going to be two old maids mouldering away together.

The ruins are very interesting, the tower furnishing a good example of Norman work, although, alas, the grand old fabric is gradually but surely mouldering away.

Unless Diana Spencer had ended up mouldering away for many decades, forgotten in a care home, there was no chance that she wouldn't have such a halflife.

An old pole in an old place is a sombre sight, but those being carved today will not meet the same fate, mouldering away in abandoned communities.

At the beginning of the 1960s, much of the railway system was mouldering away - slow, inefficient, dirty and in many ways unchanged since the First World War.

Dead mice, dead birds, dead moths and dead insects so tiny you cannot see them, they all are festering and mouldering away all the time.

There is the Farnese Palace, too; and in it one of the dreariest spectacles of decay that ever was seen - a grand, old, gloomy theatre, mouldering away.

Beyond that is a small stand of woods, with a narrow path winding through it and a couple of sheds, no longer used and mouldering away quietly, along the way.

Like an older brother locked up in the attic so he cannot inherit his rightful title and fortune, “the first modern English detective novel” has actually been mouldering away forgotten for years.

In it, Bruges takes on a leading role as a sort of city of the dead - dark, neglected and mouldering away following its mercantile decline during the 18th and 19th centuries.

The sun was mouldering away behind a white wedge of descending fog now, anyway, and I could hardly see my hands in front of my face, let alone the peaks of distant rocks.

In some quarters, a snake or zigzag fence had been begun, but in no instance had it been completed; and the felled logs, half hidden in the soil, lay mouldering away.

The barns and outhouses are mouldering away; the sheds are patched and half roofless; the log cabins (built in Virginia with external chimneys made of clay or wood) are squalid in the last degree.

They remind me, I suppose, of when I was a man still walking on the skin of the world, instead of a moth-eaten relic mouldering away in an old folks' home where many of the residents wear diapers and rubber pants.