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
One Sunday evening returning home from services at the First Christian Church, she found her house defaced with fragments of more than a dozen putrescent eggs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many are very large and ponderous; fleshy and putrescent, decaying soon after maturity.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
