rotting

Example Sentences

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Lineage has also contracted with Orkin and Signal Restoration services to manage the possibility of pests being drawn to the rotting food.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

“Now you can smell the rotting food,” Wendy Ramirez said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

Raised by her mother in a small terrace council house with rotting window frames and no upstairs heating in a former mining town near Sunderland, she was bullied at school and received free school meals.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

Its rotting parts lie in the grass near a city sewage treatment plant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

While Mr. Morrison talked with one of the police, the men from the hearse maneuvered a gurney up the rotting steps.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn