putrified

Example Sentences

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Only instead of feeling nausea from watching a man drown in a tub of putrified pig guts, you're bawling your eyes out because someone's dad has just keeled over with stomach cancer.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2010

Now his condemnation damns the sales of any comestible as if it were visibly putrified; his praise is an advertisement beyond price.

From Time Magazine Archive

He lamented that her voice had evaporated, but noted that "it has fled this impure, debasing, putrified air which was going to smother it, petrify it, degrade it!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Reinforcing this vision of inferno are his colors: stark blacks, whites, umbers, reds, yellows, and ghastly phosphorescent greens of putrified corpses.

From Time Magazine Archive

The head spring of all envy, also issues out from pride, and this divides, in many streams and waters, all our courses and ways, with putrified and pestilent corruptions.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh