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Example sentences for "fumigate"

Lexicographically close words:
fumbles; fumbling; fume; fumed; fumes; fumigated; fumigating; fumigation; fumigations; fuming
  1. They carry their preventive with them; they sweat and fumigate all the day long.

  2. They must either wash themselves or fumigate other people.

  3. I still fumigate the pipe, ant say, 'What was your son's name, and where servet he?

  4. But next to us sits a strange chentleman in a grey Uberrock, who trink coffee, fumigate the pipe, ant says nosing.

  5. If trees be infected with an easterly blight, the best way is to fumigate them with brimstone strewed on burning charcoal: this will effectually destroy the insects, and preserve the fruit.

  6. If a room be swarming with these noisome insects, the most ready way of expelling them is to fumigate the apartment with the dried leaves of the gourd.

  7. It will also be of considerable service to smell vinegar and camphor, to fumigate the room with tobacco, and to chew myrrh and cinnamon, which promote a plentiful discharge from the mouth.

  8. It would also be proper frequently to fumigate them with vinegar or muriatic gas.

  9. At times they perform the following ceremony with these bones: They take a potsherd with live coals, throw sweet-smelling grass upon it, and fumigate the bones with the smoke.

  10. It is also used to fumigate nursery stock for San José scale, and mills and dwellings for such pests and vermin as become established in them.

  11. In all this time, they should be grown cool and, if not possible to fumigate them with tobacco, the pots should stand on tobacco stems, which should be moist at all times.

  12. Fumigate only at night when there is no wind.

  13. Do not fumigate the trees when they are wet, since the presence of moisture renders them liable to injury.

  14. Spray with kerosene emulsion or whale-oil soap; or if infesting cucumbers or tomatoes, fumigate over night with hydrocyanic acid gas, using 1 oz.

  15. In nurseries, after the trees are dug, fumigate with hydrocyanic acid gas, using 1 oz.

  16. The people also give them as medicine to cattle at the time when the animals are driven forth to pasture; or they fumigate the beasts with the smoke of the herbs, which are burnt along with shavings from the wooden threshold.

  17. The Wends of the Spreewald twine wreaths of herbs and flowers at midsummer, and hang them up in their rooms; and when any one gets a fright he will lay some of the leaves and blossoms on hot coals and fumigate himself with the smoke.

  18. In all this time, they should be grown cool and, if not possible to fumigate them with tobacco smoke, the pots should stand on tobacco stems, which should be moist at all times.

  19. An effectual and preferable method now employed for destroying the aphis is to fumigate with the vapor arising from a pan containing a gallon of water and a pint of strong extract of tobacco.

  20. Nothing else could be done except to fumigate the "between-decks," that operation rather adding to the heat than otherwise.

  21. All the passengers were indeed compelled to land, as it was considered necessary thoroughly to fumigate every part of the "Crusader," an operation which could not be carried on while they remained on board.

  22. I will fumigate with incense if thou wishest--shall I?

  23. I will fumigate with incense; I will recite a prayer; I will sprinkle holy water around thee.

  24. During thunderstorms a bit of the wreath is burned on the hearth with a prayer; some of it is given to kine that are sick or calving, and some of it serves to fumigate house and cattle-stall, that man and beast may keep hale and well.

  25. Moreover they take burning brands from the fires and carry them through the houses in order to fumigate them.

  26. The boys light torches at the new fire and run to fumigate the pastures.

  27. If a farmer has taken possession of a new house, or if servants have changed masters, the boys fumigate the new abode and are rewarded by the farmer with a supper.

  28. In the Somali Country, the very home of incense, both sexes fumigate the whole person after carnal intercourse.

  29. A week has passed away fairly peacefully, and now the last fresh trouble is that we have got to fumigate this house with a very dangerous mixture of vitriol and prussic acid to kill various non-paying guests, such as mice, mosquitoes, etc.

  30. Fumigate it with incense and then remove the covering, and "gaze" at it (tilek) intently.

  31. An alternative method was thus described to me by a magician: Take a white cup, fill it with water, fumigate it with incense, and deposit it in the hole dug to receive the centre-post.

  32. The constant battle with insect pests is fatiguing, and one cannot spray and fumigate and spray and fumigate incessantly, as the florist does.

  33. It will not be agreeable to fumigate the room or rooms, or even to have the smell of tobacco near the house from this cause.

  34. In the Somali County, the very home of incense, both sexes fumigate the whole person after carnal intercourse.

  35. None of these illustrious persons had the slightest knowledge of Western ways, and they one and all protested that to fumigate them, or their great Chang, was practically fumigating the Emperor of China!

  36. The English were furious, threatening terrible things if any one attempted to fumigate them.

  37. So he returned to his place and sat down, whereupon all the damsels rose and the lady bade them fumigate him and sprinkle rose-water on his face.

  38. I hope Hedwig will fumigate you when you get home to-night.

  39. I'd fumigate myself and come out here and see her nearly every day, and I can talk to everybody over the telephone.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fumigate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aerate; boil; carbonate; distill; embalm; emit; evaporate; exhale; fume; fumigate; incense; perfume; purify; reek; scent; smoke; spray; steam; sterilize; sublimate; sublime; vaporize; ventilate; volatilize