putrescent
Example Sentences
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The pinkish, putrescent, rurally located lagoons have been a source of concern for decades.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2018
Emily Browning, who embodies Dead Wife Laura Moon as both ferociously loyal and frustratingly troubled, didn’t either – but we'd like to give her the most fly-attracting, putrescent prize we can imagine this year.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2017
He will expound on the archaic waste-disposal operations that once flourished on the creek, conjuring scenes of putrescent horse carcasses floating in on barges from Manhattan and docks piled with manure three stories high.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2012
The Baldwin supporters having gained a strategic position by the voting booths were attacked with 60,000 putrescent eggs, countless heads of codfish, and soft rotten fruit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Generally, the mere vaccination is not responsible for them, but in some instances putrescent vaccine may be adduced as their source.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
