mothball|mothballs in English

noun

naphthalene ball used as moth repellent

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1. They also smell of mothballs.

2. He smelt of expensive soap, sandalwood and mothballs.

3. Midway spent five years in the mothball fleet at Bremerton, Washington before being taken over by a museum group.

4. After almost 5 years, on 20 September 1951, Rowe was brought out of mothballs and recommissioned 5 October 1951.

5. Langley was taken out of "mothballs" early in 1951, refurbished and transferred to France under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program.

6. India plans to mothball its mainstay MiG-21 Soviet-era fighter jets, which have earned the sobriquet "flying coffins" because of their dismal safety record.

7. But manned space flight in America is now in mothballs, and in these dispirited times even the pride visitors take in the dam is mingled with wistfulness.

8. A total of 13 piers were constructed along the west bank of the St. Johns River adjacent to NAAS Green Cove Springs to house a U.S. Navy "Mothball Fleet" of some 500 vessels, primarily destroyers, destroyer escorts and fleet auxiliaries.

9. I 'll Await a second viewing to decide whether this really is Haneke at his very best, but for now I suspect that The White Ribbon will be the film that will most resound in the mind after the red carpet has been rolled up and put in mothballs for yet another year.