rot

Example Sentences

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The pillars tilted and some of the floor boards showed signs of rot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

That is forcing vineyard owners from Bordeaux to Australia to rip up vines and leave grapes to rot in the fields.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Yet Aster diagnoses them, and everyone else, with a deadly case of social media brain rot.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

A publication that once stood for truth and justice, emboldening reporters like Bernstein and Woodward to uncover corruption, was now wantonly flaunting its own rot.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2026

Windfall, where ripe plums rain down from the gods’ trees and there is always the sweet smell of rot.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor