mothball

Example Sentences

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Revelers stay home as the box office slumps to its worst weekend in three years Mothball the hats and horns: is already a bust.

From Time • Dec. 11, 2011

Finally, the Government dragged a couple of armed ships off Mothball Row—a combat freighter like the Lester Dawes, and a big assault transport—and began trying to get them into commission.

From The Cosmic Computer by Piper, H. Beam

Something off Mothball Row that would have to be flown to Barathrum and torn down and completely rebuilt, but not the one that was there already, partly finished.

From The Cosmic Computer by Piper, H. Beam

One of them had gotten four old freighters off Mothball Row, and they're tearing them down and cannibalizing them into one spaceship.

From The Cosmic Computer by Piper, H. Beam