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Sentence Examples Bingo is shedding its blue rinse and mothballs image and bidding to become young, fun and sexy. Avoid using electronic repellent devices, mothballs or other unregistered products. With all the warm woollies tucked away in your wardrobe along with mothballs for company, it is time you get yourself a brand new wardrobe. For optimal protection, store in acid-free, nonplastic containers, or in garment bags with mothballs or cedar chips. The stench of mothballs enveloped the store as she pried off the lid, revealing a stack of carefully packed leopard skins. Having put my hats away for another year, I resignedly shake the mothballs from my woollens and resolutely turn to face the dark months ahead. Every time she moved a book, the scent of dead trees and mothballs wafted out from the bookcase. Oh, man, the old lady that boarded the bus is crocheting, annoying, and smells of mothballs. As it was, she had a thin, lumpy wool cloak, riddled with holes despite its distinct, musty smell of mothballs, to prop up her head upon. Other hazardous items in the bathroom or linen closets include dietary supplements, nicotine gum, mothballs, soap and chemical cleaning agents. All three facilities, built by the Soviet Union, have been in mothballs or lightly used in recent years. Summer days are here again, and the winter woollies have finally been put in mothballs. As she became hot under the collar of her polyester blouse, the smell of mothballs became over-powering and I started to sneeze. The NSW Opposition's justice spokesman says the Bathurst Jail will be in mothballs once the new Wellington prison opens. Instead of using mothballs, which are made with a chemical that can cause headaches and irritate your respiratory tract, employ a natural option. I have tried using mothballs, blocks of cedar wood and regularly vacuuming the egg cases but to no avail. Seated next to me was a darling old woman who smelled of mothballs and whose red lipstick was slightly askew. I can assure you that none of my carpetbags have mothballs in them. There was just a faint scent of lavender and mothballs about her. In fact, I'm probably pretty close to how old Jessel was back then, when he'd be dragged out of mothballs to warble outmoded old songs in that peculiar nasal delivery of his. Show More Sentences Granny then put away her good clothes and strategically placed the mothballs before putting on her blue wrap-around apron to finish the unpacking. You can smell the lavender sachets on them, if not indeed the mothballs, and they seem to be made up of faded photographs and yellowing newspaper clippings. Although expected, the stench of mothballs nearly knocked us all senseless as we entered the small, stuffy hall which only grew smaller as we all piled in with our bags. Everything emitted a mouldy odour, mingled with the smell of mothballs. In a house that reeked so badly of mothballs, the desperate fragrance of preservation, I was surprised at how negligently my grandmother treated her furniture. To the uninitiated, mothballs are marble size balls of a campher-like substance that one puts in drawers or presses to prevent moths eating holes in clothes. It smelled of mothballs and camphor, the elemental scent of my homeland, and out came crumpled wads of tissue paper containing miniscule treasures. The 500th report is on ordinary naphthalene, the principle ingredient in mothballs and the familiar odor in millions of closets filled with winter's woolens. It would rather have them sit in mothballs in Arizona than use this equipment, and it bellyaches about funding. The smell of mothballs or dog hair scattered near plants will also keep them away. Registrants are required to modify the packaging of end-use products to mitigate the risk of accidental ingestion of loose mothballs by children. Naphthalene is found in a variety of consumer products including paint solvents, mothballs and driveway sealant. The USEPA is requiring a confirmatory study to determine levels of naphthalene in the air resulting from use of mothballs at the maximum rate. Naphthalene is also found in various consumer products such as paint solvents, mothballs and driveway sealants. Nigella seeds are known to repel certain insects and can be used like mothballs. Rose chafers can be repelled by spreading mothballs on the ground near rosebushes. On the pipeline side, in the North Sea the Norwegians have postponed development of the Troll West gas field, which mothballs plans for the Gas Network Expansion pipeline to the mainland Europe. Registrants are required to modify the packaging of mothballs and flakes to minimize the release of vapours while naphthalene products are in storage. Exposure to naphthalene could occur during placement of mothballs or flakes by homeowners, after placement from inhabiting indoor areas treated with naphthalene, and from accidental ingestion of mothballs by toddlers. The results showed napthalene, a chemical contained in mothballs, was present in 16 of 17 samples. Show More Sentences The health agency said mothballs and flakes in New Zealand contained harmful chemicals like camphor, naphthalene and dichlorobenzene. But manned space flight in America is now in mothballs, and in these dispirited times even the pride visitors take in the dam is mingled with wistfulness. The compound, para-dichlorobenzene, is used to make mothballs, urinal deodorizers, and air-freshening blocks for household use. According to label directions, mothballs and flakes are to be placed exclusively indoors and no environmental exposure is expected to result from the use of naphthalene as a pest control product. And the one answer that might look obvious put the space station in mothballs and wait for the OSP is probably not an option since the station needs regular visits from craft with rocket engines to stop its orbit decaying. When used as a pest control product, naphthalene is an insecticide in the form of mothballs or flakes for control of moth and larvae which are destructive to textiles made of natural fibres. Places where it is in direct contact with vinyl or rubber products or chemicals, including mothballs or other insect repellent, for long periods of time. Unfortunately, funding shortfalls beginning in the early 1990s meant that research staff were gradually withdrawn, and in about 1994 the entire research facility was put into mothballs. Examples from Classical Literature No more, no more will robins nest within their lilac shade, for they are folded now and pressed, and with the mothballs laid. The house was over-warm, and there was a musty smell of over-aged furniture, old leather, and the pungence of mothballs. He smelled faintly of mothballs and looked very respectable. Find more words! 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