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
This dry-rot fungus perhaps enters the trunk by way of the stumps of limbs broken off by the snow that loads the broad palmate branches.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by Muir, John
The windows are open, and a warm, spiced wind flutters through in pleasantly successful disputation with odours of dry-rot and chilly earth and stone.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
Wasn't I just after tellin' ye there ain't no worse dry-rot for a soldier?
From Where the Souls of Men are Calling by Neill, John R. (John Rea)
