How To Use Woodworm In A Sentence
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Inspect the roof - looking at lead flashing joints in the valley between roof slopes - guttering, windows and door frames, and be vigilant for signs of damp, rot or woodworm.
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The floors and doors on the main floor are of solid mahogany, which is impervious to tropical woodworms and termites.
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The tree, in the car park of St John the Baptist Church, was ‘badly scarred’ by the incident and a tree specialist told Millward that it will probably suffer from woodworm and rot.
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Woodworms are still the one danger to the survival of letters on their journey out of the jungle; they have to be protected from them by being placed in a plastic bag.
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Acclaim for the film of Sir Hector's last expedition was gradually wheedling stray young men like sated woodworms, into the light of potential dangers.
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They own helicopters and submarines and they can afford to spread the woodworm of corruption through poor countries, right to the top.
Johann Hari: Obama Must End the War on Drugs -- or Mexico and Afghanistan Will Collapse
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The presence of sap will attract woodworm, which love its sweetness, so you must cut your hazel while the sap is sunk for the winter.
Wildwood
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The current gang of squatters are not happy we have moved in - the woodworm, some hairy spiders, 20 years of cobwebs and a family of field mice.
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Although the articles we created from plywood have long since disintegrated through woodworm and decay, memories of our early lives and our innocent preoccupation remain constant.
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Held in a prison cell, he called for the guards and got out seconds before the roof fell in - the story goes that the woodworms had ‘told’ him they were chewing through the beam.
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The 76-year-old from Southend Road, Wickford, was tricked into believing his roof was riddled with woodworm and in danger of collapsing without major repair work.
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If you listen hard enough, you can hear the sound of a thousand woodworm croaking their last.
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Woodworm had eaten into most of the furniture.
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The timber buildings suffered from woodworm and supplied an ideal location for woodlice, spiders and wasps.
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The current gang of squatters are not happy we have moved in - namely the woodworm, hairy spiders, 20 years of cobwebs and dust and a family of fieldmice.
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Spray on woodworm fluid following the manufacturer's advice, and replace the boards and then spray the top surface.
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You need to treat this wood for woodworm.
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Besides, the very roof of the church, damaged by a great storm in 1961, infested with woodworm and leaking in many places, was judged to be highly dangerous.
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There was no central heating and the house was riddled with woodworm and damp.
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Leaning at the main door of the farm you saw behind you the coming of the woodworm.
Arnold de Vos
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However, the relatively soft woods of European furniture were no match for the humidity, tropical woodworms, and termites of Cuba.
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He couldn't play it; the guitar was riddled with woodworm.
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The timber buildings suffered from woodworm and supplied an ideal location for woodlice, spiders and wasps.
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There were still relics like this lurking in farm buildings when I started out on my agricultural life: I recall finding a woodworm-infected patten lying in the manger of a stable a week or so after the last draught horse had been put to sleep.
Country diary: North Derbyshire
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A serious woodworm out-break in the sanctuary was discovered and all affected timbers have now been removed.
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The order was not without its problems - large discounts were often insisted upon and the furniture was infested with woodworm on arrival.
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Although the articles we created from plywood have long since disintegrated through woodworm and decay, memories of our early lives and our innocent preoccupation remain constant.
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Ultimately the woodworm is a textual presence, signifying the presence of an aporia, reminding us of the false divisions made by historians in the textual continuum of the past.
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He once discovered from the woodworm living in the beam in the roof of his prison cell that they were moments away from chewing right through.
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Woodworm had eaten away at the door frame.
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I lifted the carpet to check the floorboards for damp and woodworm.
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I was on Guido when he blogged about the injuries and the nutters came out of the panelling like .303 woodworm.
Is fairness enough?
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It has to be cut thickly (making individual panels rather heavy) and is prone to warping and damage by woodworm.
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The 76-year-old from Southend Road, Wickford, was tricked into believing his roof was riddled with woodworm and in danger of collapsing without major repair work.
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Apart from a bit of woodworm, the beam seemed solid enough, but the panel rang hollow.
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Spray on woodworm fluid following the manufacturer's advice, and replace the boards and then spray the top surface.
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Such work can only be carried out by a reliable specialist as in the case of aforementioned woodworm infestation treatment.
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Unfortunately, the carved ceilings have suffered woodworm attack over the years.
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There were still relics like this lurking in farm buildings when I started out on my agricultural life: I recall finding a woodworm-infected patten lying in the manger of a stable a week or so after the last draught horse had been put to sleep.
Country diary: North Derbyshire
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Staff will also be on the lookout for insect pests such as woodworm, and surfaces and open stonework will also get the spring clean treatment all year round.
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However fine lines can rapidly break down, and that implacable enemy of the woodcut, the woodworm, leaves its mark in the small white circles which often denote later impressions of an old cut.
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Wooden panelling on the walls of the upstairs bedrooms had woodworm and were replaced by healthy new tongue-and-groove panelling.
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The hills of Ibiza are covered in savine pine trees which are prized for their wood because it is immune to woodworm and therefore excellent in the construction of interiors.
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At least they now have a building without all forms of rot and woodworm, and without pigeons in the roof and who knows what in the cellars!
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At that moment my heart was in my mouth, for I could see Lot 88 written on them and also the woodworm in crates that had never been opened since 1921.
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In recent years the Grahams have had to put up with freezing cold, mildew and woodworm.
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Hemingway later blamed the damage on woodworm, a witty reference to absinthe's quasi - magical ingredient - wormwood.
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Beware of carvings containing tiny holes that are not part of the design - they could indicate the existence of woodworm.
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The amount of wildlife in the house was evident; bright orange sawdust outlined the furniture, indicating that the chairs are only staying upright because the woodworm are holding hands.
NO-HO - Nov. 20: Absurdity Day
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Have you ever pulled a piece of furniture out from the wall, after several years, to find that the woodworm have been busy behind?
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This ladder is riddled with woodworm.
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Wormwood buttering rack, Edwardian rat-hair doormat, woodworm in French fluting and the set of wooden birthing stirrups ...... are not necessarily an essential accompaniment to the modern bric a brac home, to which he adds:
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Our house now resembles a once-magnificent oaken beam, riddled with woodworm and crumbling into its final collapse - like the country it used to so proudly represent.
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I lifted the carpet to check the floorboards for damp and woodworm.
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Spray on woodworm fluid following the manufacturer's advice, and replace the boards and then spray the top surface.
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Hemingway later blamed the damage on woodworm, a witty reference to absinthe's quasi - magical ingredient - wormwood.
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Also check floorboards and woodwork for active woodworm and rot.
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You need to treat this wood for woodworm.
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And his pegleg got woodworm and broke into three.'
Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
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Wormwood buttering rack, Edwardian rat-hair doormat, woodworm in French fluting and the set of wooden birthing stirrups ...... are not necessarily an essential accompaniment to the modern bric a brac home, to which he adds:
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