putrescent
Example Sentences
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The two inspectors “noted the particular odor emanating from the dumping of putrescent food waste,” according to the notice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
The pinkish, putrescent, rurally located lagoons have been a source of concern for decades.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 30, 2018
Emily Browning, who embodies Dead Wife Laura Moon as both ferociously loyal and frustratingly troubled, didn’t either – but we'd like to give her the most fly-attracting, putrescent prize we can imagine this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2017
He will expound on the archaic waste-disposal operations that once flourished on the creek, conjuring scenes of putrescent horse carcasses floating in on barges from Manhattan and docks piled with manure three stories high.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2012
When the contents of the bowels are still more stimulant, as when drastic purges, or very putrescent diet, have been taken, a cholera is induced.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
