How to Use fumigate in a Sentence

fumigate

verb
  • We had to fumigate our apartment to get rid of the ants.
  • All the hospital rooms had to be fumigated.
  • Many homes during the spring months hire companies to fumigate their houses.
    — Carmen Gonzalez Caldwell, miamiherald, 17 May 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • As the chopper lands, police jump out, to fumigate and depart before a confrontation can occur.
    — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The facilities were fumigated and employees returned to the building, but the bedbugs came back as well.
    — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026
  • And the government long ago scaled back campaigns to fumigate against disease-carrying mosquitoes.
    — Luciana Magalhaes and Juan Forero, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
  • The management company then sent someone to fumigate the apartment, blanketing it in white powder.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Like ordinary soybeans, they were fumigated with a pesticide.
    — Peter Whoriskey, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2017
  • 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
  • The road outside the stadium was also fumigated for mosquitoes.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 23 Feb. 2020
  • The house on Genesee Avenue near Conrad Avenue was being fumigated at the time.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 June 2017
  • The chefs worked together for several hours, first to sterilize the onggi over heated charcoal topped with a small amount of honey, which fumigate and purify the vessels.
    — Andrea Strong, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 May 2026
  • The chrysanthemums would be kept on hold until the agency decided what action, if any, to take, such as fumigating the shipment, returning it to the farm or destroying it.
    — Patricia Mazzei Scott McIntyre, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the latter province, officials were planning to start fumigating this week, a delay criticized by Granma readers.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Now, the government is trying to chemically halt mosquito breeding by fumigating streets and lacing water tanks with larvicide.
    — National Geographic, 25 Feb. 2016
  • The researchers recommended that the factory be fumigated with another pesticide, phosphine gas, to kill the remaining mites.
    — Fox News, 12 May 2017
  • 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
  • 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 actress referenced the parent series’ Season 1 episode ‘Malcolm Babysits’, in which their house is fumigated and the family is forced to live in a tent outside.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Termites led Apopka to fumigate its police headquarters over the recent Memorial Day holiday.
    — Stephen Hudak, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 July 2017

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