rotting

Example Sentences

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"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

“It’s hell,” said a taxi driver named Pedro as he drove past heaps of garbage rotting in the streets because there is not enough gas for trash trucks.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

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

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

I don’t blame her for wanting to rid the kitchen of rotting fruit.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller