fumigate

The family blamed the spread of the virus on a failure to fumigate rice fields near them.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024

"Some people fumigate every three to five years because it doesn't protect structures from future infestations."

From Science Daily ● May 31, 2024

In 2004, chemical manufacturers began to phase out methyl bromide, another chemical widely used to fumigate soils, because it harms Earth’s ozone layer.

From Science Magazine ● May 25, 2023

Instead of trying to fumigate away the dangers lurking in the soil each year, growers can throw out last year’s substrate and put in a new batch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2022

He hired a chemical company to fumigate the fields.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

The Paul W. Bryant Hall at the University of Alabama offers all these features plus arcade games and a climate-controlled room that fumigates players’ shoes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2016

Photographer Juan Barreto captured a Health Ministry employee as he fumigates inside a church in Caracas, Venezuela, on Feb. 5.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2016

It’s only after the narrator confronts a sickly vaporous entity, and fumigates the basement with chemicals, that the property becomes safe for habitation.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2015

The toqui then fumigates the four cardinal points of the circle with tobacco smoke from his pipe.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Noack objects that when Odysseus fumigates his house, after slaying the Wooers, he thus treats the megaron, AND the doma, AND the courtyard.

From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang

Trump even fumigated his property in Mar-a-Lago after Cohn visited for a birthday dinner shortly before his death.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024

For Nelly Vaquera-Boggs, the plastic tarps that cover strawberry fields in Monterey County when they are being fumigated with toxic chemicals offer little comfort — especially when those fields are close to schools.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

Miske even fumigated a Honolulu concert hall for free after the city couldn’t afford the $200,000 estimate, Kennedy said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

But around lunch time on the eighth day into their holiday the room next to theirs, which had an adjoining locked door between them, was fumigated with pesticide, known as Lambda, for a bedbug infestation.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2023

Vacated lockers were scrubbed, mattresses fumigated, brass coat hooks, doorknobs and keyholes were buffed.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

De la Espriella also pledged to begin fumigating coca fields, which Petro had said covered about 626,000 acres, as early as Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Ethylene oxide is used for several purposes in industry, including as a fumigating agent for spices.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2024

“We do it when the students are not at school,” he said of fumigating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

They’ve also shown that, when given access to cotton balls dipped in insecticide, the finches will build nests with them—essentially fumigating their own nests in the process.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 15, 2024

On Saturdays, he has a second job fumigating apartments in Spanish Harlem.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar