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Sentence Examples Heavy rain had churned the camp's dirt roads to mud, but failed to drown the smell of rotting corpses that still lie beneath mounds of masonry. We eventually figured out that the problem was caused by bad guttering and some rotting wood between the roof and said gutter. The smell of stagnant, rotting waters hung so thickly that the air was nearly unbreathable. Wooden fencing round the gardens on the ground floors, already broken down and rotting, the patches inside still uncared for. Quite a few of the houses are dilapidated, paint flaked off rotting wood, patched up with corrugated iron boards. We clambered over the stile and onto a well-worn path fringed by dry rotting undergrowth. Relief workers say there is a high danger of epidemics because many bodies and rotting animal carcasses have not yet been disposed of. Telling someone that foul body odour is effectively rotting bacteria, which never smells good to humans, is one direct approach. I sense above the rotting bodies of bogong moths in Canberra an especial stench around the events of last Thursday. Forward of the holds are the usual pairs of mooring bollards on solid steel plates, deck planking rotting around them. It was a two-story building with rotting blue painted shutters and a door that was only moments away from unhinging itself. They grab Frank, throw him in the car, and cart him off to a rotting medieval hulk of a prison. But three weeks later, the rotting carcasses of dead rats had still not been collected, and were producing a nauseating smell. Its teeth, rotting and yellow, were complemented by a long snake-like tongue that flicked around inside of a slimy, saliva filled mouth. Instead, the palm trees are uprooted and rotting on the sand, which is hidden by rubble and rubbish. Aspergillus fumigatus is a common fungus that grows on soil, plant debris and rotting vegetation in the autumn and winter. Do web pages or rotting newspapers leave some kind of afterglow in the light of the universe? Bind him fast or by Zeus, I shall see you rotting in gaol alongside this upstart vagabond! We suggest you also caulk around each hole to prevent water from creeping in and rotting the siding. Old boxes, rotting leaves and abandoned flowerpots are a breeding-ground for slugs and woodlice. Show More Sentences It's literally falling apart, it's an absolute pigsty, and it just reeks with the smell of rotting beer. She explained that some place had become a dumping area for rotting vegetables that vendors were unable to sale. Much of the repair work centres on the spire of the church where water has been leaking into tower and rotting the foundations. The air grew foul, the reek of rotting death made them heave as they picked their way through the mass of tangled bodies. Its legs splayed out, occasionally twitching, and its dead body quickly began to stink of rotting Scourge. Just two blocks away are burned-out buildings, trash-strewn alleys and rotting cars. During the First World War, men lived like worms burrowed into the earth, surrounded by rotting corpses and filth. The ground was coated in rotting pine needles and was springy to the touch. In an old-growth forest, rotting trees sprouting new saplings are a common sight. A disgusting squelch echoed around the concrete enclosure as a plastic bag split open, revealing beneath the rotting fruit, an identical device. Now, on the whole, this sort of vivid reference to rotting flesh and the worm-eaten body is not a very good argument for seduction. Shivering slightly, I tied the horse's well-used rein to a rotting stake in the wooden fence and stepped inside. But I'm digressing, this post is all about the music, not my brain rotting youth. Many residents have expressed concerns that the rising tide of rotting refuse will attract rats and other vermin. The best thing to do with old cherry trunks is to let them lie in the woods, rotting down to feed fungi and invertebrates. While you harvested a ton of apples, you still ended up with lots rotting on the ground, attracting yellow jackets and making a mess. It needs to be re-roofed, the slates are falling off and the building is rotting. Once state-of-the-art post-war buildings were crumbling away, with leaky roofs and rotting window frames. The roof is also leaking badly, window frames and guttering are rotting and the interior is in urgent need of redecoration. Drug paraphernalia and empty wine bottles lay strewn among layers of rotting food, dirty cardboard boxes and stinking blankets. Show More Sentences Female Bornean tree hole frogs lay their eggs in the rotting holes of hollow tree stumps so that offspring can grow in a pool of water. Joncas' photographs of rotting and leftover refuse are a funny twist on the still-life genre. Blackened, sun-baked filth laid rotting outside the medical clinic and piles of used syringes were scattered about the courtyard. The thick undergrowth spilled over rotting remnants of fences and a crooked signpost at the intersection of the drive. Everyone knew that the stairs were rickety, that everything was old and rotting! The real reason for the rich pong of two-day-old kelp is the little barnacles and other creatures rotting. So considering my options of staying at home and rotting or getting a job and earning some extra pocket money, I decided to do the latter. Hurrying into the heart of the library, the musty smell of old ink and rotting paper curled around her nostrils. The black rotting cabinet doors were open and the drawers were overstuffed with magazines. There are plushy comfy cushioned couches for simply rotting away while listening to the crowd go wild. It looked ironically enough, like the most expensive house in the area, even though the wooden window frames were rotting away. Following the steps down to main deck level at 25m, the deck planking is rotting but intact all the way to the stern. The lore holds that elephants can get drunk by eating the fermented fruit rotting on the ground. But now the youth of today, they live in sin rotting like beasts between filthy sheets. The tunnels were shored up by timber and after 85 years, many of these timber supports are rotting away. The wood was rotting on one side, and no smoke came from the brick chimney. Sadly, a big chunk of this money mountain is rotting away in obsolete accounts that pay a pittance in interest. The child was finally found huddled inside a flat with her mother, surrounded by bin bags full of rotting food. Guards' keys jangled as you passed the idle silence and time of your life rotting away. Walk by a pile of good melons and the air should be full of heady perfume without rotting or fermented undertones. Show More Sentences Behind all the pomp and ceremony of Louis XIV's court, the ancient regime was rotting. Soon I won't be able to pay for these lessons, then I'll be stuck rotting away at home. Four PCs are rotting away in a Franklin County evidence room, and there is little their owners can do about it. For a moment she thought she very well might be rotting in a dungeon somewhere. You lift a rotting log with one hand and pry out juicy grubs with your other forefinger. Unlike other floral species, the Rafflesia exudes a smell of rotting flesh! Amy peered round at the vast landscape surrounding her and held her fingers to her nose to block the awful stench of rotting corpses. Physicians attributed the primary cause of disease to miasmas emanating from sewage, cesspools, or rotting vegetable matter. Doors were rotting, roofs of buildings were caving in, streets were littered with rusting machine-like objects. The tragedy of Amin is that he died in exile, not rotting in a jail or executed for his crimes. Laid in burrows or under mounds, megapode eggs are incubated by the warmth of the sun, rotting vegetation, or volcanic vents. Mix grit in with heavy soil and sit the bulbs on a layer of grit to stop them rotting. Leave your barrel in the street next to the supermarket trolley, the rotting sofa and the binbag full of used hypodermics. Right now the food is rotting and people are starving because of bureaucratic tangles. It was rotting, like the rest of the building, and parts of the wood had fallen away completely. In the wet season, their clothes were saturated and rotting, their boots full of water. The mangroves' waterlogged roots decayed into peat, and the peat's acidity and lack of oxygen kept the wood from rotting. Somewhere in a rainforest, inside a rotting log, lives a colony of termites. Around him graves crept up the hillside in a mishmash of stone headstones and rotting wooden crosses. In the hot summer months, when the water level drops, a rotting church steeple can be seen poking up accusingly above the water line. Show More Sentences It is one of very few neighbourhoods where the air is thick with the stench of rotting bin bags. Compost is the living, black material that is made from rotting fruits, grains and other organic matter. They also contain rotting rubbish smells and stop the mess caused by cats ripping open bin liners. It raised its rotting hands, mentally measuring Ben to see what size clothes he was best suited for. The back wheel sounds like a baby's rattle and the mechs have been slowly rotting for a while now. While it is not riddled with defects or scratches, it still looks like lost stock footage from a rotting box of ancient newsreels. Garden waste is rotting outside homes because it hasn't been collected for a month. On our land, I found evidence of that century-old slaughter in the form of huge, rotting, sawed-off stumps hidden like giant toadstools. The stench currently assailing your nostrils is a fish rotting from the head down. Since then houses in the area have been visited by a stench resembling rotting carcasses. It rips open bee trees to feast on honey, honeycombs, bees, and larvae, and will tear apart rotting logs for grubs, beetles, crickets, and ants. The cargo, 4500 tons of bagged lentils, has long gone and the steel is rotting and sagging towards final, inevitable collapse. The odor of failure and confusion linger over the Duchy like the smell of rotting flesh. These are pictures of the rotting dead bodies of Parsees from the insides of the towers of silence in Mumbai. The lazy and eerie rustle of wind through trees was all we could hear as we gathered handfuls of rotting needles. All the terraces are concrete, which obviates the need to worry about timber decking rotting or getting slippery when wet. The rotting process releases acids which dissolve metals into liquids which leach out of waste dumps and can poison local rivers. Thank goodness it was only ever a standby facility, and that today it lies rotting and abandoned. One side was fence, the other a swamp, a mire skewered by rotting birch trunks bracketed by hard tinder fungi. He was also worried about the health risks of rotting, derelict whare, which became breeding grounds for rats and vermin. Show More Sentences His rendition eliminates entirely the bitterly ironic and surreal imagery of a rotting, burning body hanging from a tree. Here come the tumbrils, inching their way slowly through the rotting cabbages and vulgar ribaldry of Republican isolationists. Wind gusts can blow the rotting trees down, posing a serious enough danger that the city removes them for reasons of liability. One of my Ma's friends came up with a second broken chicken crate she'd found rotting in a field in Linden, on the other side of St. George Avenue. The Beds were crammed together, and a man in the middle of the room had spots of flesh on his body that obviously were rotting. They were being carried out and the stench of their rotting flesh and bloated guts made it hard to examine them closely. A brackish breeze blew off the Black Sea, mixing with rotting garbage, human sweat, cheap cleaning products, and undefined fumes. Leaves, soft plants and rotting branches were crushed absolutely flat. By now the scent of rotting windfalls were heavy on the air, and the apples were taken from the trees, turned into jam, or stored among layers of straw for use later on. What does our desperation to get a nuclear deal at all costs say to the modern-day Iranian Solzhenitsyns rotting in Evin prison? Soon that odour will disappear under the heady scent of rotting refuse. If the nest is lined with soft or rotting bits of wood secured in the internal angles, the pair will derive endless pleasure from reducing it to crumbs. Thanks to the lidless litter section, trash is exposed and rotting. I see the autumn harvests, frozen into black knots in the trees, the berries and fruit, left rotting on the floor and then all mush turned to ice on hard ground. Neophyllis melacarpa is a squamulose lichen from the wet forests of southeast Australia and New Zealand which grows on rotting wood and tree trunk bases. Those eggs had been lying in the belltower for years rotting away. They also demanded the return of their recently socialized grain reserves, noting that the grain was simply rotting in its current storage conditions. My tomatoes are rotting on the vine before they start to ripen. If they were willing to bribe a noxious couple to help a poor girl then what lengths might the this family go to when one of their own was rotting away in jail? In the meantime, it might be a good time for those who have paintings by female artists rotting away in their basements to dust them off and put them up for sale. Show More Sentences Next was Lia, Lia who sat rotting away in the corners of a prison cell. Beginning more than two millennia ago Scythian archers dipped their arrowheads into manure and rotting corpses to increase the deadliness of their weapons. The stench of decomposing flesh greeted us before we saw that rotting bodies were lying in the gullies on either side of us. So next time you smell someone's rotting corpse around the old folks home don't go calling the morgue until you confirm whether there's lutefisk for dinner that night. During that time, Jack discovered a lack of fences, a dark forest of macrocarpa, small bridges with rotting rails and a larger one needing a fresh splash of red. The small family home is still intact but the stench of rotting flesh that comes from inside is overpowering. Watching this White House over these last several weeks has been like watching a time-lapse video of an apple rotting. I think it's so shabby when rows of tricolours are rotting away. Make a home for insects to breed and shelter by creating a log pile of dead or rotting wood, or mound up rocks or stones in a quiet shady area of the garden. Blowflies, such as greenbottles and bluebottles, are attracted to your rabbit and its housing by the presence of faeces, urine, rotting vegetables and open wounds. Most of the film from the 1920s and 1930s is not commercially exploited, which means most of the film from the 1920s and 1930s sits unpreserved and rotting away. The trash bins after a holiday weekend, rotting, swarming with flies. The first job was ploughing the browntop down and producing great quantities of short rotation one-year grass which produced green feed from the rotting turf. Meukow's foul, gilded, sour vanilla, mawkish chocolate and rotting tropical fruit salad-spiked Black Panther bottle was so feral that I only just reached the spittoon in time. Dead wood attracts wood boring insects, magnificent stag beetles, and birds that feed on insects attracted to rotting wood such as the woodpecker. He could smell the familiar odour of rotting foliage in his nostrils. There's still that familiar stench, a mixture of open sewers, rotting rubbish and offal from street butchers' stalls mixed with dust and petrol fumes. The fact that Naik still gives it primacy is appropriate, since we have persisted in dragging this rotting carcass of a social structure with us into the new century. Savulchik thinks he was lucky to be at the hospital at all and not rotting in a field. Soldiers said that the city just doesn't stink as it did when they arrived to find sewers backed up all over the place and mounds of rotting garbage. Show More Sentences The windows themselves had faded white painted frames with rotting wood and green mildew and hanging baskets with spring flowers flowing out creating a pink cascade. You will remember that we accidentally killed the original tree, a sumach, by suffocating the roots with a mixture of rotting logs and sunflower husks. They have eaten through the plaster itself to the point where it is no more than a rotting honeycomb, a huge housing system for an entire ecosystem of bugs. A big pond flanks the left-hand side of the fairway and an old boat, timbers rotting in the sun, gives the hole the ambience of desolation I mentioned earlier. To compensate for his size, he instead had the looks of a necromancer, with a fleshless bony body that held a few rotting strands of skin onto it. The blooms that symbolised eternal life were dankly rotting. The past five years have seen political stagnation with the government and opposition deadlocked, and the rotting away of the foundation of democracy has begun. Remember the floods, which brought deoxygenated water with rotting vegetation that smells like raw sewerage to Ballina, and killed all the fish in the Richmond? When the famine came around here it was terrible, the lovely drills of potatoes were just getting ready to blossom and overnight were turned to stinking, rotting pulp. They argued that the city was not required to regularly conduct state-of-the-art inspections to determine whether trees were rotting or disease-ridden. The ship's engine room was easily accessible through the rotting deck. Because the sculpture itself was made in 1991, the shark is very much rotting and deformed due to the formaldehyde taking its toll on the corpse. The odour of urine and rotting food emanating from the denning area often attracts scavenging birds such as magpies and ravens. Furiously sprouting grass mown from around the city is rotting at a council depot, creating a nasty niff. Much of the weight was due to the boat's waterlogged condition which had preserved the wood and kept it from rotting. For example, in Britain it has been estimated that various types of rotting wood are home to over 1700 species of invertebrate. Phallus drewesii belongs to a group of mushrooms known as stinkhorns which give off a foul, rotting meat odor. The crew discovered that Mary had rotting timbers, so they burned the ship. Stag beetle larvae will live in rotting wood for up to six years before emerging as adults. When she asks for guidance on what to do when she herself inevitably achieves corpsehood, the cadavers just sit there, mute and rotting. Show More Sentences Each of the black pots contains a rotting quail carcass covered in soil and swarming with the larvae of American burying beetles. Even if the gift is rotting away like weekday morning manna in the breadbox where we keep it. Garbologists discovered the leachate, mostly water mixed with rotting garbage, actually aided in decomposing other trash in the area. My mind is already on baggage queues and the bhindi that I left in the fridge that must now be rotting. I slithered over roots and through a bramble bush and a mulchy pile of rotting leaves. Sac fungi live in both salt and fresh water and on land they are found in soil, dung and rotting logs. Only a rounded bar and three rotting bathtubs remain in the decrepit club. The two docks had by then long silted up, imprisoning the rotting hulk of an old wooden ship, the Bollam. Butterworts also produce a strong bactericide which prevents insects from rotting while they are being digested. Even cold weather makes potatoes more susceptible to bruising and possibly later rotting, which can quickly ruin a large stored crop. She lived a life of luxury in the grand cabin while the crew were fed on meagre rotting rations. When water sources were found, any type of rotting wood, or plant material, would be removed before the water was used for drinking. Storing stem down can prolong shelf life, as it may keep from rotting too quickly. They arrived in Darien to find the burnt timbers of the Olive Branch rotting on the shore. The ancestors of a critical and growing mass of present-day Americans existed in dungheaps of humanity amid rotting vegetables. A NORTH Wales farmer yesterday admitted leaving carcasses rotting in his fields and undipped sheep infested with scab. Today, ton-sized pieces of lumber lay rotting in the cool morning air. During this step, four 40-cubic-yard dumpsters of cement debris, nonrecyclable plastics, and rotting wood were taken to the landfill. The theological and exegetic rationales for such duplicity are by now threadbare and rotting. Botrytis tulipae is a major fungal disease affecting tulips, causing cell death and eventually the rotting of the plant. Show More Sentences If you have room, make two compost heaps so that you are filling one while the other is rotting down. And let us avoid not only committed sin but also the thought of sin, like the morbific smell of a rotting body, a nasty odour, with nostrils pinched together. In the study, anthocyanins were found to slow down the over-ripening process that led to rotting and softening, achieving a tomato with a long shelf life and full flavour. Many plants occasionally benefit from animal protein rotting on their leaves, but carnivory that is obvious enough for the casual observer to notice is rare. No, I mean pure stinking stenchy rubbish, the rotting sort that has greeny-yellowy water running out of it as it decomposes into a turgid pile of bubbling slop. Among their numbers are bottom feeders that scoop up mud and use their gills to sift out food, and scavengers in search of rotting corpses which drift down from above. Because of concerns about dead, rotting fish affecting water quality, SPU will limit the number of salmon above the diversion dam to about 1,000 chinook and 4,500 coho. He was in those rotting tenements where a dealer's pal was waiting downstairs with a Saturday night special to rip off the drugs that had just been sold. Examples from Classical Literature In the rotting tissues branches of the older mycelium similarly swell up and form antheridia and oogonia. The bucentaur lies rotting unrestored, Where meaner relics must not dare to rot. Gather at the full of the Moone for keeping, gather dry for feare of rotting. It may be rotting in somebody's wood lot waiting till the right boy comes along. The filaments of the mycelium may readily be detected in the rotting wood by examining a thin section in water. All the tints had turned dirty grey in this cupboard, rotting with dust and damp. The place seemed half deserted, unkept, the walks littered with last year's rotting leaves. At its worst it has collapsed into a death-trap or is rotting like a dunghill. Most of this is now a thing of the past and the dredges lie rotting at the wharves. There seems to be no bacteria in the abysses, so there can be no rotting. The woodwork down below was rotting, and covered with filth. In one there were some potatoes that had been frozen and were rotting, in the other was a little pile of flour. We always dress the surface with grit to retain moisture yet stop the neck of the cuttings from rotting and to keep down weeds and liverwort. Now in connection with the spoilage and rotting that is another matter. Where the trees thicken into a wood, the fragrance of the wet earth and rotting leaves kicked up by the horses' hoofs fills my soul with delight. They usually are found in dead standing coconut palms, fallen coconut logs, and rotting coconut stumps. It was littered with rotting straw and plum stones and melon seeds. He proceeded to remove the rotting remains from their mouldering coffins. Digging the potatoes from wet soil in cold weather makes them susceptible to rotting, as does overfeeding the soil with too much fertiliser. It looked hot and blank and sleepy, down to the shabby waterside where tattered darkies dangled their bare feet from the edge of rotting wharves. Show More Sentences Upon further investigation, Zimbabwean authorities had discovered rotting carcasses of dehorned elephants. The hill was covered with mushrooms, which were rotting unregarded. Ragged and almost featherless chickens are shown cooped up with rotting carcasses of birds that have already died. This will neutralize the acid and prevent it from rotting the wood. Cobwebs were in the angles of the walls and depended from the ceiling like strips of rotting lace, making undulatory movements in the disturbed air. Singing comes cheap to those who do not pay for it, and all this is done at the cost of one whose bones lie rotting in some wilderness or grinding to powder in the surf. The sweat poured unceasingly from their bodies, and in their nostrils was the heavy smell of rotting vegetation and of black earth that was a-crawl with fecund life. Faded Glories shows a glamorous but rotting red classic car against the greyness of Cuba, which Hilary has visited 13 times, and seen the car slowly rot away. But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified. The rotting of a corpse in a watery grave was not so fearful. Find more words! 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