fumigator

Example Sentences

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The key culprit is the chemical ethylene oxide, which is both a highly effective fumigator and a potent carcinogen.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2023

Five hours away in the newly infected town of El Dique, residents were collecting 100 bolívars from each household to hire a fumigator to come spray their homes.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2016

Bayard Quincy Morgan, Stanford's former chairman of Germanic languages, author of 40 books and countless articles�and the nation's most frenetic fumigator of the myth that every Mr. Chips is a goner.

From Time Magazine Archive

The accompanying figure and the following description of a fumigator are taken from Kiesenwetter.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.

It was almost as if he had emerged from the lethal presence of the fumigator itself.

From The Market-Place by Frederic, Harold