fumigate
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At that time the Salvation Army said pest control was brought in to fumigate the rooms affected.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
"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
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 Lang, Andrew
There's been 'flu' at school, so they've sent some of us off while Matron fumigates the rooms.
From Monitress Merle by Brazil, Angela
A scene of the room being fumigated after Cohn leaves is equally telling.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024
Despite its aggressive reputation for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, California releases more of a climate-warming pesticide than all other states combined, most of it from homes fumigated for termites, according to a study published Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 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
A British couple who died in Egypt were staying at a hotel being fumigated to kill bedbugs, their inquest heard.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
We got fumigated with the odor of perspirating bodies.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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
When questioned about the garbage this week, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said authorities are fumigating the city to prevent disease, and would deal with the problem.
From Reuters ● Nov. 11, 2023
On Saturdays, he has a second job fumigating apartments in Spanish Harlem.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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