fumigate

How To Use fumigate In A Sentence

• Pat Quinn to come up quickly with ways to "fumigate" state government. Undefined
• Pat Quinn is backing away from Speaker Michael Madigan's broad plan to "fumigate" the government's ranks with job cuts, bill would have purged as many as 3,000 state employees hired or appointed by disgraced former governors George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• Termites have invaded the Bundy home and they have to spend the night in Al's shoe store while the house is being fumigated.
• After this the whole premises should be fumigated with sulphur or formaldehyde, and then the stable left open for a week to be aired and dried, after which all surfaces should be freshly and thickly kalsomined. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)
• Allegedly, on July 22 the man used sodium dichloroisocyanurate and sawdust to fumigate a disused air-raid shelter he planned to use for planting mushrooms.
• Blest from above, human nature's wickedness had from below too frequently besulphured and suffumigated him for his memory to be dim; and though he was ever ready to own himself an example that heaven prevaileth, he could cite instances of scandal-mongering shop-women dismissed and working him mischief in the town, which pointed to him in person for a proof that the Powers of Complete Short Works of George Meredith
• Sukree Sukplang/Reuters A worker fumigated inside a building as the threat of disease from mosquitoes rose following the flooding. Temple Cleanup Is a Big Task
• Should anyone require, however, to pass through the district, he must first of all be locked securely in a cowshed beyond the limits of the village, and there his clothes must be well smoked ( 'fumigated' they call it), and he himself well doused in a ducking-tub, and if he has any coin about him it must be rubbed with ashes, which life-imperilling occupation will be duly attended to by the local gipsies. The Day of Wrath
• fumigated" right now -- though he's vague on the details of just how we do that. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
• Tonight Eton and I fumigated his apartment, and unblocked the bathroom drain.