decaying

Example Sentences

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"They do play with your mind - running around at night, in the ceiling, the air conditioning units. You can hear them and you can smell them - it's like a decaying body."

From BBC • May 30, 2026

The space, which stretches as far as the eye can see, looks like an office, a showroom, a library and a decaying home all at once.

From Salon • May 30, 2026

Voyager 1, like its twin Voyager 2, is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that converts heat from decaying plutonium into electricity.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

Empty and decaying properties are not healthy for anyone, and how much does the impact of one retail market differ from a previous one in the exact same location?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

It was a long, mostly grim trip past ugly suburbs, decaying industrial plants, slums, and vast rail and truckyards.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz