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
But you can’t patch up a dry-rot, and Bolsover crumbled more and more the oftener it was touched.
From A Dog with a Bad Name by Reed, Talbot Baines
A woman had to have the 376 association of congenial people to keep her from falling into housekeeping dry-rot.
From The Wind Before the Dawn by Munger, Dell H.
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)
