Get to know Mothball better with 7 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like ball or globe.
Mothball meaning
A small ball of chemical pesticide (originally camphor and now typically naphthalene or paradichlorobenzene) and deodorant placed in or around clothing and other articles to deter moth larvae which may damage them.
Using Mothball
- The main meaning on this page is: A small ball of chemical pesticide (originally camphor and now typically naphthalene or paradichlorobenzene) and deodorant placed in or around clothing and other articles to deter moth larvae which may damage them.
- Useful related words include: camphor ball, ball, globe, orb.
- In the example corpus, mothball often appears in combinations such as: to mothball, mothball the.
Context around Mothball
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mothball
- In this selection, "mothball" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, must, sites, heritage and fleet stand out and add context to how "mothball" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include decision to mothball the country and navy s mothball fleet in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mothball" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mothball
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Steel will cut production and mothball sites in a shake-up that threatens 440 jobs. (19 words)
She sat in the French Navy 's mothball fleet in Landevennec until she was sold for scrap in 2014. (19 words)
Auzqui added that, if the school must mothball in years to come, it will be due to lack of enrollment, not finances. (22 words)
Best of all, every speaker in the SVS Prime system can last through upgrades, rather than being the kind of thing you’ll mothball when you decide to make the leap to a bigger setup. (35 words)
Germany was set to totally eliminate its nuclear power industry when Russia invaded Ukraine and the government of Chancellor Olof Scholz reversed a decision to mothball the country’s three remaining nuclear plants. (33 words)
They include proposals to mothball heritage site Llancaiach Fawr and cultural venue Blackwood Miners’ Institute, as well as axing its Meals Direct service and shutting a staff restaurant at its HQ in Tredomen. (33 words)
Example sentences (7)
Germany was set to totally eliminate its nuclear power industry when Russia invaded Ukraine and the government of Chancellor Olof Scholz reversed a decision to mothball the country’s three remaining nuclear plants.
Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Steel will cut production and mothball sites in a shake-up that threatens 440 jobs.
They threatened to mothball the site if the extra payments weren’t removed by the end of the year as the project would be “financially unviable”.
They include proposals to mothball heritage site Llancaiach Fawr and cultural venue Blackwood Miners’ Institute, as well as axing its Meals Direct service and shutting a staff restaurant at its HQ in Tredomen.
Auzqui added that, if the school must mothball in years to come, it will be due to lack of enrollment, not finances.
Best of all, every speaker in the SVS Prime system can last through upgrades, rather than being the kind of thing you’ll mothball when you decide to make the leap to a bigger setup.
She sat in the French Navy 's mothball fleet in Landevennec until she was sold for scrap in 2014.
Common combinations with mothball
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to mothball 3×
- mothball the 2×