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
Avoid priggishness, which is detestable mental dry-rot; and flee from cant, the convenient domino of hypocrisy.
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
The dry-rot had, however, got into the wood, and the whole framework was much decayed.
From The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville by A. L. O. E.
So every precaution must be taken against dampness and dry-rot.
From Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines by Wildman, Rounsevelle
