dry-rot
Example Sentences
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He responds, animatedly for once, to the suggestion that Graham Greene, quizzed about his plots, would reply in the style of a solicitor or dry-rot inspector talking about a house.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2010
In the U.S. the work of termites was long mistaken for that of fungi and dry-rot which usually follow their riddlings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our present civilisation is suffering from a sort of dry-rot.
From The World Masters by Griffith, George Chetwynd
Irma had only looked into the cellar when she first came, and had found it rifled, the barrels dry and gaping, full of dust, dry-rot and the smell of decay.
From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Damp, unventilated situations are most favourable to the development of dry-rot Fungi.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
