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
The entire building, for want of ventilation, having become food for the fungus, called dry-rot, the timber had lost its cohesive powers.
From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Phillips, Richard
She felt that he was laying to his wife's charge the wreck of his life, and the slow dry-rot which had sapped hope, and strength, and development.
From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.
