Use "mothballs" in a sentence
mothballs example sentences
mothballs
1. It looked disorganised and antiquated and a strong smell of mothballs dominated the atmosphere
2. The regiment had been brought out of mothballs on the eve of war in 1939, for the first time since the Civil War, and did not have a history or prestige that Ferguson thought would motivate the Pentagon to keep it on the active list
3. I packed everything in mothballs
4. I was hoping there would be something lying around which would ease my boredom, but I could see nothing more than old photographs and fraying furniture which reeked of mothballs
5. She laughed when the horse turned his head to sniff at her leg, wrinkling his nose at the unfamiliar, and to him revolting, smell of mothballs
6. Mothballs and urine
7. mothballs emanated from the bungalow
8. Meanwhile, I was quite unlovely, dressed in a denim work shirt and flared Levi’s, over which I draped a full-length fur coat that had belonged to Sara’s mother and had been packed away in a cardboard box with mothballs
9. The fireplace lies behind a small wardrobe filled with my Papa’s American suits, still in mothballs, these eight years after his passing
10. Her red hair was shot with white, wiry threads, and she was unattractively thin, all bumps and points, like she’d swallowed a shelf’s worth of hardware: hammers and mothballs and a few old bottles
11. She could see nothing, smell very little except the clothes and the mothballs her mother had once sprinkled among them
12. For the entire morning the interior terrace would be in a state of crisis, and in the house it would be difficult to breathe because of bitter gusts from the mothballs
13. The pageant has been practicing for months, the Indians are trained, the prince has his tights out of mothballs, and the princess flowers toward coloratura luxury
14. You can’t go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory
15. No moths would ever have ventured near those quilts, for they reeked of mothballs to such an extent that they had to be hung in the orchard of Patty's Place a full fortnight before they could be endured indoors
