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Examples
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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How can mere dry-rot compare with the mess in Afghanistan, right?
Dry Rot 2010
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry-rot
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While I maintain ambivalent feelings about this ancient pile of dry-rot, we have some stuff inside I'd hate to lose to a house fire . . .
Snow jhetley 2009
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When public officials lie, the moral dry-rot can be wide-ranging, sometimes leading to catastrophic results (read: Iraq).
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Speaking through his channeler, Cynthia Huevos-Crusher-Stonehenge, Councilman Arbuckle went on to describe some of the common problems experienced by his constituents including over-watering and dry-rot.
To Live and Die in L.A. Don Lewis 2008
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I found his work on Crane completely unremarkable; plus, he has basic grammatical problems NTM his attempts at sustaining a submerged metaphor utterly sink or dry-rot stink.
The Hart Crane Controversy Judith Fitzgerald 2008
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[3] HOSE WOES Fuel-line hoses are notorious for developing kinks, dry-rot patches, and collapsed sections.
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Their whole foundation, built on lies and fraud and corruption and in-your-face arrogance and bullying, has rampant dry-rot at the core.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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