rotting

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Others had fruit sitting on the ground beneath, most of it not quite orange, rotting.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

Today, abandoned barge cranes lie rusting and rotting in delta sloughs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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

Every now and again, a gust of hot wind brought the stench of rotting fish.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi