rotting

Example Sentences

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Clotted ribbons of trash were drifting past, from marooned vessels forced to toss rotting garbage overboard.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

"Leominster is a beautiful place with wonderful old buildings which need doing up but they're just rotting because planning is taking so long."

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

Others had fruit sitting on the ground beneath, most of it not quite orange, rotting.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

The air is rife with hydrogen sulfide, carrying the familiar smell of rotting eggs.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

With the weather turning colder we can’t keep sleeping in our rotting tents.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone