Sentence examples for wet rot from inspiring English sources
noun
A soft rot in which the decayed tissues are markedly watery.
Meaning the roof is falling in, there is wet rot, dry rot, deathwatch beetle, house cancer, the works.
Without attention, after about 70 or 80 years, deterioration sets in; if a house is vacant, it is particularly vulnerable to salt accumulation, wet rot, dry rot, termites and other tropical maladies.
Thus far my sense of sight; while dry rot and wet rot and all the silent rots that rot in neglected roof and cellar — rot of rat and mouse and bug and coaching-stables near at hand besides — addressed themselves faintly to my sense of smell, and moaned "Try Barnard's Mixture".
In Leicester, we saw clips from two silents remade as talkies: an exotic thriller called White Cargo (1929), which was set in a rubber plantation and appeared to be both a clunky treatment of a mixed-race love affair and a study of the terrors of wet rot, and To What Red Hell (1929), in which a young man with epilepsy is racked with murderous impulses.
Noted for her efficiency and practicality, when the clock tower, the focal point of the house, needed substantial repairs in 1935 to overcome dry and wet rot, she simply had it disassembled, stored the metal parts for possible later usage and realigned the roof as if the clock tower had never existed.
Watch for fungal disease and wet rot at the base of the plants.
Larvae feed on wet rotting wood and are often found in high numbers.
The dirty-but-yet-delicious smell of wet, rotting leaves.
In all the villages we visit, people have been eating wet, rotting grain and drinking muddy water.
Gnats like to live in and near wet, rotting flowers and houseplants.
But if it rains during harvest, the vines can get wet and rot.
