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mothballs

n. (plural of mothball English)

Usage examples of "mothballs".

You put out mothballs for snakes and hung soap for deer and protected what was yours, even though it had been theirs first.

The big one with the powdery streaks down his jacket and the smell of mothballs was just a vicious thug, no problem there, but the small one with the lank hair had the smell of violent and spiteful death about him.

Burlap, mothballs, gristle-caked bones, a skull with a hole between the eyes.

I went under and found a stiff, wrapped in mothballs to kill the stink and a fucking bullet hole in the head.

There was a surge of cheap velvet, gin, sweat, mothballs, and my flailing hand made contact with something soft.

As I spoke to Sadie of sitting with Anna Winters in the green undecorated room filled with the wardrobe stink of mothballs, the words simply came out from me.