rotting

Example Sentences

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Now he says he feels as though he is "rotting away for no reason" in a hospital room.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

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

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

Today, abandoned barge cranes lie rusting and rotting in delta sloughs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

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

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

But Johnson, it turned out, was also rotting underground.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann