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rotting
adjective as in crumbling
Example Sentences
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.
Only a rounded bar and three rotting bathtubs remain in the decrepit club.
Today, ton-sized pieces of lumber lay rotting in the cool morning air.
What does our desperation to get a nuclear deal at all costs say to the modern-day Iranian Solzhenitsyns rotting in Evin prison?
One woman dying on his floor, another rotting in a suitcase: An alleged killer stuns the financial community in Hong Kong.
There was much excess tobacco in Virginia itself, some tobacco even rotting on the farms.
Sometimes the rain soaks into the stalk, rotting it so that the leaves fall off, injuring them for wrappers.
One instant more, and there were glimpses below us of the rotting pine copses and mossy bogs surrounding Petersburg.
Through a magnificent colonnade I could see a second court on one side, where were the offices; the door was rotting.
It was littered with rotting straw and plum stones and melon seeds.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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