rotting

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • May 20, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 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

She moved into a small house on Fowler Avenue in the Hayti area, full of rotting floorboards and holes in the walls big enough to allow birds in.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson