putrescence

Example Sentences

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One of its rare corpse flowers is about to bloom, in all its putrescence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2024

Many reviewers strive for a poetry of putrescence in how they excoriate their objects of dislike.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2021

Oscar Wilde, in a Bangkok cafe, Caught a whiff of a fruit in decay That gave rise to a dread Of putrescence and led To “The Picture of Durian Gray.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2019

The gospel of autointoxication and internal putrescence was laid on thick and spiked with testimonials: from customers, doctors, clergy, all wordily professing their satisfaction and gratitude.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2013

The odour of putrescence has become actually painful and almost intolerable to the more cleanly classes of mankind, owing to the association with it, as the result of education, of fear of disease and poisoning.

From More Science From an Easy Chair by Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir