"destroy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Cane toads were introduced in Australia to destroy pests on sugar plantations, and they proceeded to wipe out much of the continent's wildlife.
- The sniffers were automated trackers, designed to seek out and destroy rodents and other pests that had come back with a vengeance since the new city had been buUt.
- Phytoalexin elicitor glucohexatose has been called a green pesticide, as has a new class of insecticides called spinosad which shows "remarkable selectivity" in destroying harmful pests and leaving beneficial insects alive.
- The instructions on the bomb told how to use it in hydroponic gardens to destroy insect pests.
- He was one of the first to experiment with salt as a dressing on the land as a means of destroying insect pests.
- Another effective method of destroying pests is to use a high-pressure spray of water from the hose.
- The predatory bugs' job is to destroy other pests, which once were doused with toxins.
- Produce gas or vapor intended to destroy pests in buildings or soil.
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