furniture beetle

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Words nearby furniture beetle

furnished, furnishing, furnishings, furnit., furniture, furniture beetle, Furnivall, furo, furocoumarin, furor, furore

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How to use furniture beetle in a sentence

Many hold classes in their living rooms, asking students to help re-arrange and then later put back furniture.
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The carpeting is worn, the furniture is falling apart, and the electricity is out for most of the day.
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They were carpenters making chairs, beds and other rudimentary pieces of furniture for the locals.
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The charisma and brand of the artist itself becomes a kind of furniture.
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Blister rust is like having the flu; the pine beetle is like fast acting leukemia.
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Then, with one accord, they all rose and began to steer their way around the furniture toward the hall, Goliath following.
The Boarded-Up House|Augusta Huiell Seaman
She opened the door of a square room with large roses on the white wall-paper, and fine old mahogany furniture.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
The plain furniture was stiffly arranged, and there was no litter of clothing or small feminine belongings.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
"I'd have been in a pretty fix if he had finished my house, and I had tried to move my furniture into it," he muttered.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
Her feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford