Example collocations logo

Rotting in sentence

86 examples of Rotting in a sentence

Many are homeless, and those with homes are packed into rotting buildings with up to five families.
Natural selection also explains many basic revulsions, such as the horrid smell of rotting meat, or fears, such as the fear of snakes or standing close to the edge of a cliff.
The Tasmanian devil is predominantly a scavenger, and it uses its powerful jaws and its sharp teeth to chomp on the bones of rotting dead animals.
We cleared tons and tons of stinking, rotting fish carcasses from the local fish processing plant.
I can still remember sort of that smell of rotting flesh as I pulled the curtain back to see her.
Behind the lean-to was a dump, maybe 40 feet square with rotting apple cores and balled-up aluminum foil, and a dead sneaker.
In its natural habitat, you might find the slime mold foraging in woodlands, eating rotting vegetation, but you might equally find it in research laboratories, classrooms, and even artists' studios.
It boils down to two main things: whale poop and rotting carcasses.
And people still wonder why there are boys rotting, they go away in high school hallways they are afraid of becoming another hashtag in a second afraid of classroom discussions becoming like judgment day and now oncoming traffic is embracing more transgender children than parents.
I became paranoid, and began to hallucinate that rotting corpses were coming towards me.
And the man said, "Well, because I'm dead, so I must be rotting away."
Insects can also be turned into more sustainable food for livestock and can be reared on organic waste, like vegetable peelings, that might otherwise just end up rotting in landfills.
You might say it comes from plants, animals, or even fungi, but you'd probably rather not think about the rotting organisms and poop that feed those plants, animals, and fungi.
What happens to plants also happens to all other organisms up the food chain: some are eaten alive, but most are eaten only when they're dead and rotting.
You probably don't eat rotting things, poop, or pond scum directly, but your food sources probably do.
But one organism's garbage is another's gold, and all that rotting dead stuff ultimately provides the energy that nourishes us and most of life on Earth, as it passes through the food web.
Well, think of some of the worst odors you can imagine, like garbage, feces or rotting meat.
Say you wanted to make a fruit fly that feeds on ordinary fruit instead of rotting fruit, with the aim of sabotaging American agriculture.
But I propose to you that the sequence of microbes that occur on rotting mushrooms are essential for the health of the forest.
But my insides were rotting away.
One species not only has the colour and appearance of rotting meat; it emits a scent of decay as well– drawing in flies who deposit their eggs on the flower and unwittingly pollinate the plant.
If a portion of a Redwood is rotting, the Redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart.
Gaya may be 3,000 to 5,000 years old, no one really knows, but its top has broken off and it's been rotting back now.
And in fact, when you look at the sort of words used to describe diseases, you tend to find these words: rotting, foul, putrid or pungent.
NB: On an individual level, we seem to kind of be doomed anyway, just with the time line, we're rotting and aging and all kinds of things, right?
The carcass is stripped clean in hours, well before the rotting meat infects the water supply.
Yes, there could be a rotting of the American mind, and of the minds all the way around the earth, if we don't start to think sensibly about these things.
At one point Herzog encounters a group of starved cattle rotting away in the sand, yet the image is presented much like you and me would, perhaps worse, the camera peering hand-held from one cattle to the next.
The 'climax' is not that at all as we've had so many signals, and by the end we're simply immune to flesh, rotting and otherwise.
The rotting cherry on top of this fetid mess was the most horrendous "special effects" and "makeup" to ever disgrace the screen, even for television.
Next