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Example sentences for "fumigated"

Lexicographically close words:
fumbling; fume; fumed; fumes; fumigate; fumigating; fumigation; fumigations; fuming; fumo
  1. On coming into the presence of Cortes, the ambassadors touched the ground with their hands, which they kissed in token of respect, and then fumigated him and the rest of the Spaniards with incense.

  2. At the Emergency Hospital, with the first appearance of catarrhal affection of the genital organs or of so-called milk fever, the wards are immediately emptied and fumigated with sulphurous acid.

  3. Carpets are best fumigated on the floor, but should afterward be removed to the open air and thoroughly beaten.

  4. When the cure is effected, let the clothes be carefully fumigated with sulphur, or the contagion will again be communicated.

  5. It will lodge a long time in dirty clothes, and be liable to break out again; and therefore the bedding and clothing of the sick ought to be carefully washed, and fumigated with brimstone.

  6. The gown should be kept in a closet or suitable place, separate from all other clothing, and the gown, and the closet should be fumigated after the termination of the case.

  7. She hung the hair, or whatever it was, on a peg and fumigated it with brimstone, sprinkling salt on the fire and mentioning the names of the lover and his lass.

  8. Similarly among the Basutos cattle taken from the enemy are fumigated with bundles of lighted branches before they are allowed to mingle with the herds of the tribe.

  9. The shutters were bolted from within, the paper placed upon a table, and the room strongly fumigated by the Irishman, who uttered some mysterious words.

  10. They fumigated us to guard themselves against the cholera, though we hailed from no infected port.

  11. Shipped my newspaper correspondence, which they took with tongs, dipped it in sea water, clipped it full of holes, and then fumigated it with villainous vapors till it smelt like a Spaniard.

  12. They fumigated her last Paris frock at the quarantine station, and took the colour out of it!

  13. Yet, before doing so, he fumigated it carefully with tobacco, feeling the while a trifle ashamed of his own smile at the remembrance of those green sleeves.

  14. Whenever a car has carried a sick person it is fumigated as soon as it is vacated, in addition to the regular monthly, weekly, or other schedule of fumigation for various lines and terminals.

  15. To protect still further the health of the passengers, the cars are regularly fumigated with a gas which kills all disease-producing bacteria.

  16. I didn't care for a 'fumigated waist' so, like you, I made Amarilly a present perforce.

  17. That worthy woman smiled, remembering how the fastidious young rector had shrunk from the thought of wearing a fumigated garment.

  18. Pastures fumigated at Midsummer to drive away witches and demons, i.

  19. Wreaths and posies were then thrown in a heap and kindled, whereupon the children snatched them up, still burning, and ran and fumigated the wild gooseberry bushes with the smoke.

  20. Widows fumigated to free them from their husbands' ghosts.

  21. Nets fumigated with smoke of need-fire, i.

  22. Then she bathed and fumigated her hair and body over a brazier of strong herbs, such as in those days of frequent and virulent sickness housewives kept at hand, after which she dressed herself afresh and went to seek her husband.

  23. They will have to let us out to be fumigated with the rest of the crew,” answered Bark Lingall.

  24. You will land the ship’s company of each vessel, and they will be fumigated on shore.

  25. Winstock; “but my orders from the authorities are imperative that all vessels from infected or doubtful ports shall be fumigated before any person from them is allowed to land in the city.

  26. At that stage the stalk has only five joints, and from that period it must be fumigated daily till the grain appears.

  27. Perhaps when they have duly fumigated the House, they will turn their attention to the Office.

  28. I've fumigated every chamber with sulphur; I've sprinkled every wall with eucalyptozone.

  29. He fumigated the hold and the forecastle--a precaution that kept all the crew coughing for two days, and drove them out of the odor of formaldehyde to the deck to sleep.

  30. The formaldehyde with which Turner had fumigated the ship clung here tenaciously, and, mixed with the odors of bilge water and the indescribable heavy smells left by tropical cargoes, made me dizzy and ill.

  31. It was to the effect, that before any ship was allowed to set sail for a foreign port, the hold should be fumigated with a deadly gas, so that any hidden Huguenot who could not otherwise be detected, might be suffocated to death.

  32. The husband declared that rather than be exposed to the gaze of the crowd, his wife would run the risk of being fumigated to death.

  33. The steerage had to be fumigated at intervals and every soul was ordered on deck before the process began.

  34. In addition to this, the writer has fumigated single rooms and smaller houses with the gas.

  35. The writer has fumigated a large college dormitory of 253 rooms, once a year for several years, without the slightest accident of any kind.

  36. Even in their cabins, the natives cannot take a mouthful of food or lie down to sleep unless they are fumigated almost to suffocation.

  37. Ships coming from infected ports are no longer disinfected for the purpose of killing the plague germs, but are fumigated to destroy the rats and the fleas which they might harbor.

  38. This means that the patient must be removed to a mosquito-proof room, or ward beyond reach of the insects, and that the infected room must be thoroughly fumigated at once, to kill the mosquitoes hiding within it.

  39. Further, the bladders are fumigated with torches of wild parsnip stalks, the aromatic smoke and red flames of which are believed to be well-pleasing to the souls of the animals dangling in the bladders.

  40. Having confessed she was purified by a medicine-man, who fumigated her with the smoke produced by burning a bean plant.

  41. The mixture was then made to smoulder and the baby was fumigated or "washed" in the smoke.

  42. Pastures fumigated at Midsummer to drive away witches and demons, x.

  43. See also Sowing Seed-corn, fumigated with wood of sacred cedar, ii.

  44. Juniper berries, houses fumigated with, as a protection against witches, ix.

  45. Presently the Magician brought out from his breast-pocket a casket which he opened, and drew from it all he needed of incense; then he fumigated and conjured and adjured, muttering words none might understand.

  46. It was washed throughout with vinegar, fumigated with the strongest scents, and several large barrels of pitch were set fire to in the aisles.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fumigated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.