petrifying
Example Sentences
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One of his earliest patients was a man already in the black “sphacelus” stage, the limb putrefying while still attached.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
With time, the perfume seems to grow even sweeter—another thing it has in common with putrefying bodies, it turns out.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 26, 2017
Together we must shift everything from the rubbish room – sack after sack of putrefying material, huge compressed stacks of cardboard – up four flights to the street outside.
From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2015
The author unashamedly falls in love with Patience Darton, a tall, beautiful, brave and rebellious English nurse who managed every day to find beauty amid putrefying wounds and floors sticky with blood.
From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2015
My first impulse is to cover my nose to block out the stench of soiled linen, putrefying flesh, and vomit, all ripening in the heat of the warehouse.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
