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 Mr Frampton added yet another blow at the very heart of the dry-rot before the week was out.
From A Dog with a Bad Name by Reed, Talbot Baines
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
Military critics had long been aware that the army of India was antiquated, honeycombed with dry-rot, and largely ruled by favorites sitting in high places at Whitehall.
From East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Penfield, Frederic Courtland
