rotten
Example Sentences
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He learned to patch up injured men in below-deck sea cabins, where gangrene turned a wound black and rotten.
“You knowhow we sometimes get an egg good and rotten so it makes a big stink?”
From Literature
“But they go rotten very quickly once you pick them, so people make them into wine, or jam. I’ve never had them fresh.”
From Literature
Under President Xi Jinping, an anti-corruption crackdown has swept through Chinese football in recent years, exposing the rotten state of the professional game.
From Barron's
The crowded streets reek of rotten fish, and it pains me to see Father limping again.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
