dry-rot
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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
The mouldings and ornaments were in the most superb fashion of its age; but the whole was falling to pieces, from the effects of the dry-rot.
From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Richard Phillips
Mr Frampton—he was not even a “Doctor” or a “Reverend,” but was a young man with sandy whiskers, and a red tie—had a few ideas of his own on the subject of dry-rot.
From A Dog with a Bad Name by Talbot Baines Reed
But that had been better than the dry-rot of an escape from righteous punishment.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
“She just kept it until it dry-rotted because that was all she really had to remember his dream — his vision,” Green-McCray said of her mother.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2021
Their tasks have included repairing some of the N95 masks that had been stored at Mary Washington Hospital and had dry-rotted elastic bands, Conner said.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2020
One hospital official reported getting children’s masks instead of adult sizes, and another described a batch where many were useless because the elastic bands had dry-rotted.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2020
The folks directly next door are the nicest people, but their house is in terrible condition: peeling paint, dry-rotted windows, and a roof that needs redoing.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2019
Below me, the fire department stood staring in horror at their dry-rotted nets that had been torn to shreds.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
It is still languishing three-quarters of the way done in my garage, dry-rotting in place.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2020
The whole passage required careful walking, to avoid dangerous holes, and thin, dry-rotting boards.
From Chatterbox, 1906 by J. Erskine (John Erskine) Clarke
There was nothing but burrs and nettles inside those walls, and an old wooden bullock plough and a couple of yokes were dry-rotting across the back doorway.
From On the Track by Henry Lawson
Men there were in plenty, dry-rotting at the post for lack of something to limber their joints; but officers to lead?
From An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier by Frederic Remington
Now the warehouse stood dry-rotting and unkempt, its spaces regularly tenanted only by the owl and bat.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
