rotting

Example Sentences

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Its rotting parts lie in the grass near a city sewage treatment plant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

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

From BBC • May 20, 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

They look around curiously at our rotting tents and the big iron pot hanging over the cook fire.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone