How to Use fumigate in a Sentence

fumigate

verb
Definition of fumigatenext
  • We had to fumigate our apartment to get rid of the ants.
  • All the hospital rooms had to be fumigated.
  • The AT&T Center has been cleaned and fumigated after its three-week stand as a barnyard.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Instead of trying to fumigate away the dangers lurking in the soil each year, growers can throw out last year’s substrate and put in a new batch.
    — Sam Deanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
  • Sometimes, owners neglect to clean — or fumigate — the home.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 20 May 2018
  • The paddle, which looks like a hairbrush with spikes, was used in the late 1800s to puncture mail so that postal workers could fumigate it to try to contain yellow fever outbreaks.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Many homes during the spring months hire companies to fumigate their houses.
    — Carmen Gonzalez Caldwell, miamiherald, 17 May 2017
  • The males have been known to decorate their nests with flowers to attract mates and fumigate their dwellings with fresh herbs to repel unwanted pests.
    — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The house on Genesee Avenue near Conrad Avenue was being fumigated at the time.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 June 2017
  • Lice cannot survive without a host for more than a day, so there is no need to fumigate and risk exposure to dangerous chemicals.
    — Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2021
  • As the chopper lands, police jump out, to fumigate and depart before a confrontation can occur.
    — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2018
  • In an opening scene, the Kims, sitting together on the floor, notice someone fumigating the street outside for insects.
    — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Long before two Swiss sisters made the world’s first batch, in the late 1700s, the herb from which absinthe came—wormwood—had been used to ease childbirth, alleviate rheumatism, and fumigate plague-ridden houses.
    — Sasha Ingber, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
  • Long before two Swiss sisters made the world’s first batch, in the late 1700s, the herb from which absinthe came—wormwood—had been used to ease childbirth, alleviate rheumatism, and fumigate plague-ridden houses.
    — Sasha Ingber, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
  • The shipment containing snails was fumigated, the release said.
    — Alex Stuckey, Houston Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Each ambulance was then hosed down with disinfectant and the cabin fumigated before being turned around and sent out again.
    — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Although you may be tempted to rush out and fumigate your home, the majority of the arthropods found pose no danger to humans, and many escape our notice completely, the researchers say.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2016
  • Engulfing the stations were fumes from burning harmala, a plant widely used in Turkmenistan to fumigate homes and public spaces to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
    — NBC News, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The management company then sent someone to fumigate the apartment, blanketing it in white powder.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The United States has spent more than a billion dollars on fighting Colombian cocaine by fumigating crops and trying to force farmers to plant substitutes for coca.
    — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 1 May 2018
  • Crew members said the empty passenger rooms will be sanitized and fumigated, and that they would be transferred to complete a second 14-day quarantine there.
    — Hillary Leung, Time, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Bedbugs are disgusting and expensive and exhausting, and require you to role-play your own private disaster movie, nuke most of your belongings and fumigate the rest.
    — Laurie Penny, Wired, 18 June 2020
  • And the government long ago scaled back campaigns to fumigate against disease-carrying mosquitoes.
    — Luciana Magalhaes and Juan Forero, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
  • The road outside the stadium was also fumigated for mosquitoes.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 23 Feb. 2020
  • While the accord says the government should co-operate with farmers to replace coca, the raw material for cocaine, with legal crops, Mr Duque wants to return to the practice, ended by Mr Santos, of fumigating coca from the air.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • A service worker discovered a front gate had been left open at around 3 p.m. on Friday after a pest-control company had fumigated the facility, a police report said.
    — Miami Herald Staff Report, miamiherald, 5 May 2017
  • There were nods to the crisis unfolding outside -- the couple updated their wedding hashtag to #loveinthetimeofcorona, and kept sanitizing and fumigating the space.
    — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 28 Mar. 2020
  • The researchers recommended that the factory be fumigated with another pesticide, phosphine gas, to kill the remaining mites.
    — Fox News, 12 May 2017
  • Stinkbugs can also be pricey for companies that ship goods overseas; American car manufacturers, for instance, have to fumigate or heat products prior to exporting them to certain ports from stinkbug-prone areas.
    — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2011
  • Farming on a large scale in California involves a caste system: Off-site landowners hire Mexican families to irrigate, fumigate, pick, and prune to generate profits.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 6 Feb. 2018

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