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

Before our kids even learn the alphabet, we hand them tablets, and we know from neurological imagery that it is rotting their brains.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 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

A year later, he was breeding maggots by the thousands, in milk bottles filled with rotting fruit in a third-floor laboratory at Columbia University.*

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee