rotted

Example Sentences

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Maria Ngo had spent most of the day tossing expired items and rotted produce from the small grocery store — casualties of the forced shutdown.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

A pyramid-shaped viewpoint on Loch Lomond that was hailed for its "sustainable timber" has been removed because the wood rotted away.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

Her contorted expression is rotted by anguish, as though life’s unbearable burdens have laid waste to their latest victim.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025

Carcasses rotted in his studio as he waited for the muse to possess him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

We came upon a capsized dinghy in the mud, mostly rotted, and barrels half-sunk.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson