Foundations crack, rooms imprison, moldy basements harbor secrets (or at least the laundry).

I left Rocket chained to a fire hydrant and went into the courthouse, which smelled like a moldy basement.

Operating systems are the moldy basements of computing.

It reposed in a moldy basement.

Dragged her down into a moldy basement and dumped her on the floor.

Everything in this fascinating reliquary of a show looks like it was exhumed from some moldy basement.

With areas of brushy white and off-white paint, the tabloid-size collages have an old, distressed look, as though they had been exhumed from some moldy basement of the mind.

He paid them with money he made from selling illicit drugs that he cooked up in the moldy basement of the house they shared with four other families.

Yes, you probably had to live in a crumbling house or moldy basement.

"You're vastly deficient in line etiquette," he said dryly, "but I'll admit that this is better than the moldy basements I'm always hearing about."