rotting

Example Sentences

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None of this will cure the malaise and pessimism rotting the economy from the inside.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

"I just feel that we're wasting our lives in here and rotting away," Craig says.

From BBC • May 1, 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 torn articles—the parchment wrapped around a fistful of rotting vegetables—splattered in his face.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques