- present participle of decay.
decaying
Example Sentences
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They resumed digging at a sprawling and decaying property, shifting the focus from a battered greenhouse that was the center of attention Tuesday to an area nearer a home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Instead of studying photons or other relatively long-lived quantum systems, the researchers searched for entanglement between pairs of Z bosons, massive particles that exist for only a tiny fraction of a second before decaying.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
"The smell is like decaying wood being burned – that's the characteristic smell of peat. And that peat contains decomposed wood and organic material from many different sources."
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
When the local economy began declining in the 1970s, the store closed its doors and sat abandoned and decaying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
He ordered laborers hired by the city, called scavengers, to clean the streets of decaying garbage and dead animals, since their vile smell might well be causing the disease.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
