rotting

Example Sentences

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Before our kids even learn the alphabet, we hand them tablets, and we know from neurological imagery that it is rotting their brains.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

"Leominster is a beautiful place with wonderful old buildings which need doing up but they're just rotting because planning is taking so long."

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

Others had fruit sitting on the ground beneath, most of it not quite orange, rotting.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

The air is rife with hydrogen sulfide, carrying the familiar smell of rotting eggs.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

The disease which was rotting his body had eaten away nail and flesh to the first knuckle.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya