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Sentence Examples I felt trapped within a stupid, rotten, dishonest system which brutalised people too naive to know any better, consumed our idealism. As a precaution, I had scented toilet paper stuffed up my nose, but the bouquet still came on like a rotten gauntlet across the snout. While some people were busy fighting and dying, war profiteers made fortunes selling rotten food, unserviceable uniforms and non-working weapons. They will grumble, they will gripe, they will moan about waiting lists and rotten food. No matter how rotten the day had been or how lonely his life had become, she ignited a spark inside him that he'd considered dead and buried. Of all the dirty, rotten, disgusting things you've done, this has to be one of the lowest. Decomposition of urine containing cystine or pus will have the odor of rotten eggs. My husband thought he could strip the rotten shingles off the steep roof himself. They exude the sweet, slightly rotten smell of hypocrisy as everyone takes a position of high dudgeon and righteousness. This was otherwise a rotten location, an inaccessible brownfield site heavily contaminated by what had been the largest gasworks in Europe. There are many game-type booths for the younger luchadors to test their skill at punching rotten melons. He reeked and tears filled her eyes from a mix of his rotten smell and the pain his dirty fingernails were causing as they dug into her cheek. Although if you ask me, or any committed conspiracist, something is rotten in the state of Sweden. The children suffered from eye strain, headaches, leg and shoulder pain, malaria, discoloration of hair, rotten teeth and dysentery. All the roof timbers have been retained in the church except where a rafter of wall plate was absolutely rotten. But it's important to keep some perspective, even as another load of subpoenas and rotten tomatoes comes in over the transom. Then why are they feeding them rotten, frightening, dreadful food for their minds and souls? A rotten egg, also, is said to jaup, when, upon being shaken, a noise is heard like that proceeding from a bottle not full. As the passage continues there is a section of rotten flooring supported on dubious stemples just above head height. It would be a stone-hearted soul who would not feel for him for the rotten press his private life and family has drawn since he went to Spain. Show More Sentences What a fine mess that rotten cousin of yours has gotten her poor sister into! It's one thing being fed falsehoods over TV and radio but another kettle of rotten fish altogether when they do it straight to your face. This is not an action of the Resistance, but cold-blooded murder in the service of rotten political objectives. Come on, did you suspect that the smell of rotten eggs might one day lead to practical interstellar space travel? Defeat would be hard to endure, but another rotten display would be intolerable. It was the most rotten of rotten boroughs, a place where the corrupt, the fraudulent and the freeloaders prospered. The boards were so rotten that they gave away immediately, showering him with debris. The make-up people excelled themselves with lots of dirty fingernails and a welter of warts, wens and rotten corpses. Garbage spewed onto the street, bones and water bottles clattering across the street, rotten vegetables splattering wetly against the sidewalk. No matter that pointy shoes pinch your toes something rotten, last year people were happy to suffer them in the name of fashion. I think it's a rotten idea to publicize this with a chain letter, but the principle is sound. For them, the West was crass, materialistic and, of course, morally rotten. It's a sharp economic slowdown caused by a mood of irrational despair fed by press and political hype about what's rotten in American capitalism. He hardly had the outer appearance of a man who was rotten with evil on the inside. Claudius, in a setting of mid-Victorian Gothic, was marked as the villain and focus of all that was rotten in Denmark. Nobody's evil here, except for a few rotten Templars intent on picking a fight. Dirty rotten unionists will be revealed as the faceless powerbrokers of Labor. The foul stench of blood, mingled with that of rotten flesh, permeated the air. Kernels are removed from the cob and mixed in a ratio of one-third clean, one-third spoiled, and one-third rotten. They were utterly appalling with their rotten or missing teeth, tangled, matted hair, and yellowing scurvy eyes. Show More Sentences The forest floor often is covered with duff from rotten pine needles, logs, and leaves. The accident revealed that timber posts supporting the metal barriers were inadequate and even rotten in places. The French fries were often undercooked, fruits and vegetables rotten, breads molding, and once or twice, the meat rancid. Mercifully, the album evens out at a level of listenability that is less than ideal but not actively rotten. The circus doctor articulates the sweet and rotten intertwinements, the rust and enormity circus life upholds. Toward the end of the film, one of our villains does something very rotten, and Green takes action that indirectly leads to this person's demise. It had walls, but the beams within were mostly rotten, the roof had gone, it was structurally unsound and the site was entirely overgrown. One of the first steps is to treat dampness and replace any rotten timbers. Man has been building bridges since the first rotten tree fell across a stream and set in motion the Neanderthal brain cells. There is air rage, delays, mechanical problems, over-crowding, excessive tickets, rotten food. A Soviet sub carrying rotten caviar and toxic waste cabbage broth is scuttled and the oozing brew burbles into the depths of the ocean. Elsewhere during the Hangover technology beanfeast, we understand that HP's own demo of Bluetooth was similarly rotten. The corn laws were repealed, the rotten boroughs were redistricted and the Whigs became credible contenders for power. Don't ever get a dog because some rotten neighbor will just come and take it away and then you'll have to go battle some witches to get him back. We aren't like the local autocrats, hypocritical and thieving to their rotten cores. Although much of the decking is rotten, the structural timbers are intact giving some parts of the wreck a skeleton appearance. When I cut through it with my saw, the centre was rotten, so it's just as well it was coming out. She barnstormed for equality and was insulted, vilified, even pelted with rotten eggs for her trouble. We're told that the folks from here are evil, but we never see them do anything very rotten. The series received rotten reviews, then good ones, and the viewing figures blossomed. Show More Sentences The rotten, rain-soaked khaki tears easily when two men are yerking at your collar. And then I plainly saw, both with wonder and delight that the joint of meat did, in some places, shine like rotten wood or stinking fish. Taking away days and weeks worth of effort in a single stroke is a lousy rotten thing to do to your patrons. The mobile classrooms have damp, mould, crumbling walls, hazardous wiring, rotten beams, etc. We just spoiled them rotten, always finding them tasty goodies to add to their regular food. There are plenty of rotten American films that had a great political impact. What begins with hope and freshness in each case quickly degenerates into something twisted and rotten. Frankly, the worst thing about choruses is that they have absolutely rotten senses of humour. The sands of the desert gave way to a grass-land, though the grass had a rotten look to it, and was slippery to walk on. She looked at him in distaste, smelling the rotten stench of vomit, and sure enough, he'd puked on the floor. The fact that one of the rotten little orphans had befouled her room with mud and muck had not helped matters. In this age of rotten service, crummy products and seething attitudes, you have accidentally stumbled onto a solution to those woes. I am sick of my mom telling me how rotten I am and sick of the courts ordering me to places like this. We were larking around with a bout of on-street wrestling when I noticed a pile of rotten vegetables on a deserted stall. Continuing in his stiff, impassive way, Chris lifted Dion onto the rotten chair and wrapped the ropes around him and the chair. The checkouts were populated by a mixture of young girls and housewives, and for the most part they mothered me rotten. A musty aroma of hunter's stew filled her nostrils, and the sour smell of soggy, rotten straw was almost unbearable all of a sudden. There was a peculiar smell in the air, one of rotten eggs or meat, the smell of sulfur. Trust me, all of this is lousy, crummy, rotten behavior on your husband's part. On the other side is an adze for chopping steps and clearing rotten ice for screws. Show More Sentences Professor John Marangos hurls still another batch of rotten tomatoes at the neoclassical approach to political economy. With that Max rammed head first into the wall and the rotten wood began to splinter. That is putting politics above the national interest and it's a rotten business no matter who does it. The engine appears mostly intact, but all the wood is rotten and asbestos lagging is still on the boiler. There were a couple of trashcans along it, and they spewed nasty smelling piles of half rotten food, and junk. I don't care about rotten window frames, leaky roof tiles, the magnolia paint in the hall, the dirty lino in the kitchen. Mothers were supposed to harass you until you had your own children, after which they spoiled your children rotten. His daughter starts off trying to kill Blade and ends up fancying him rotten. It's rotten having to wash in salt water as the soap won't lather in the slightest although it is supposed to be salt water soap. She's also spoiled rotten because she's Mother's favorite, even though she's a year younger than I am. He is a decent, dull-faced fellow who appears completely normal, which is more than can be said for the local copper, who fancies Rachel rotten. It was times like these when he wished he had had a sister growing up so he could spoil her rotten and always have someone to be close to. The next day, I moved in with my grandparents, who lived on the north side of Metrocon, and I guess to help me heal, they spoiled me rotten. The girls were all in high school and were spoiled rotten, always showing off their latest buys at the mall, totally obsessed with themselves. At school, people practically fell over each other to date him, and where his parents were concerned, well, they just spoiled him rotten. The rich children were spoiled rotten, and lived in sharp contrast to the rich teenagers, who were all very good and very dull. Indeed, many countries do nothing with their bombed buildings, but leave them looking like rotten teeth in a nice smile. The Victorians hid their rotten teeth when sitting for portraits and photographs. Daily, we are forced to lie just to get through this stinking, rotten modern world. Everybody perceives wheelclampers as stinking, rotten people but we do give consideration. Show More Sentences She will have none of it, she refuses to bow to the lowest instincts of people who are rotten to start with. When you become pregnant, hopefully many years from now, you'll see just how rotten your mood can get. In general, funds with poor long-term past performance tend to have rotten future performance. The bar was noisome and smelly, the stench of unwashed bodies and foul beer mingling with the rotten fish smell of the port. You were the one who took out the rotten no-good that was holding a knife at Sam's throat. When a tooth is decayed, the dentist usually repairs it by drilling out the rotten portion, and filling the gap. I do however go out and get blitzed far too often, and wake up the next day feeling rotten having spent a lot of money! If I harp on how rotten the production is, it's because I have few qualms with the music, outside of the first track, which is just aimless. It's like someone threw a rotten egg into a bottle of spoiled milk and skunky beer. Mary might have been an extremely intelligent woman but she had rotten judgment in men. There was the curious fact that whereas Hitler began as a competent strategist and ended as a rotten one, with Stalin it was the other way round. In the smoky darkness, a rotten floor gave way, and Kruger, 54, fell into a stone sub-basement filled with eight feet of water. I speak not as a partisan or an opponent of any man or measure, when I say that our politics are rotten to the core. Americans may remember auto manufacturer, which vanished from the U.S. market in 1987, for poor quality and rotten reliability. The shooting with the Bren was rotten and on the whole I had a cow of a day as an instructor. The journalist kept asking if other children at school were really rotten to me, and I kept saying that it wasn't a big deal at all. If you only knew how many lousy meals and rotten movies he has dragged Diana to throughout the years. The wreck sinks into the silt just aft of her deck gun, where the rotten planking of her raised walkway can be seen, and a big conger lives. The group members confront the film industry types about their rotten films and corrupt lives. His book was one of the first to lay down just how rotten and corrupt the Florida election was. Show More Sentences The Egyptian vulture, not content with rotten meat, also consumes cow and sheep feces. On a recent visit to a motorway service station, we paid 15 quid for three rotten sandwiches and undrinkable tea. Judging by recent films, things may not be quite rotten in Denmark, but Scandinavians seem no more immune to family horrors than we do. She insists that the whole corporate system is rotten and even murkier crimes are committed in the financial world every day. If this is true, then people are just naturally dishonest and crooked and downright rotten. Or maybe it is all this rotten weather and the need for a good holiday somewhere sunny and warm. Had rotten branches been found, I am convinced that such a lovely tree merited the attention of a tree surgeon rather than felling it. A Telegraph editorial says the case shows that something's rotten in the European superstate. However, nothing is more frustrating after so much effort than seeing misshapen or rotten fruits on the vines. It took two days and a night, and involved the ascent of two mountains and an evening descent upon a rotten glacier. Painting over the rust conceals, but does not postpone, the inevitable collapse of a rotten structure. At home and in the field, the men around him had often complained of rotten meat and moldy bread. It works well in Scotland and now, with PR for Scottish local elections, it breaks up the old Labour rotten boroughs. Western democracies have had their own experience of rotten boroughs and tribal strongholds. The question may be asked whether there was something rotten in the state of France. Some brat even threw a rotten apple core at me and sped away in his blasted tricycle contraption before I could catch him. Henriette grew to rival her mother's beauty, but was eventually spoiled quite rotten by the fact that she was the only girl in the family. Sometimes, you get the feeling that the industry knows that something is rotten at its heart, but doesn't really want to let on. Instead he's stoned with his fathead cousin throwing rotten eggs at luxury cars from an 11th floor balcony. The stones are not bleached white but rather black and worn away to nubs, like an old man's really rotten teeth. Show More Sentences Over the last decade, Melhuish's team has produced a string of bots powered by sugar, rotten apples, or dead flies. What has looked to us to be healthy, roseate, and vigorous is, in fact, rotten, corrupt, and frequently amoral. For example, while the original roof structure was rotten, the pantiles were able to be reused and now greatly enhance the aged appearance of the exterior. It is important to note that James won't see this until this Saturday at his birthday, unless one of you rotten bastards reading this goes and tells him. Yet many proponents of universal suffrage were just as deluded, in their own way, as the Adullamites who clung to their rotten boroughs as if civilisation depended on them. Not even the rotten cabriolets out there can put this bunch off. They know this is a rotten deal and they are demoralized, running faster and faster with no hope of catching up. Sewage pipes burst on the 7th floor of the building, distributing a strong, rotten smell that seemed to match the mood. He is so utterly rotten he manages to make devils like Perle look positively benign in comparison, and his current evil is fomenting the attack on Iran. The lab report came back showing the specimen was some kind of rotten meat. Underneath the mangy, beige carpet, the floorboards were rotten. We were compelled to eat rotten biscuits and stinking decaying meat while our officers fatted themselves with the best food and drank the most expensive wines. Yeonmi had been hospitalized at the time for a stomach illness, likely from her diet of rotten potatoes. The teenage pyromaniacs experimented with different fuel sources, different sorts of fats and oils, moss, dry rotten wood and home baked tinder using a cotton handkerchief. We are a nation in which a few rotten apples are spoiling different barrels. The suicide craft's wooden wing was thoroughly rotten but, using reverse engineering and a few captured drawings, the museum's craftsmen have re-created the wing. As a young man, Manet sailed to Brazil on a cargo ship and was asked by the ship's captain to paint the rinds of rotten cheese so it could be sold in the port. High concentrations of the organism can be found in bird roosts, caves inhabited by bats, school yards, areas with rotten or decaying wood, and chicken coops. If that wasn't bad enough, it also smelled of putrid rotten eggs. The air was green with the stench of fetid and rotten flesh. Show More Sentences The fallen tree had been moldy and rotten, the smell strong and unpleasant enough to deter most burrowing animals that would normally have occupied the space. Most of the people who passed her during the daytime would either spit at her or come along and pelt the door with rotten vegetable and eggs for their own amusement. He adored Rebecca more than anything else on the planet, and proved that continuously by spoiling her rotten and buying her whatever her heart desired. Easter was great and I spoiled Riley rotten by buying her lots of stuff. But Dash was the true love of her life and she spoilt him rotten. This was a stinking rotten election fought under shameful rules. The reason for the delay is the mess ministers are making of the terrible tangle of complicated regulations in an already rotten piece of legislation. From roaring avalanches to rock falls and rotten ice, Sher had already imagined a dozen ways to die on Nanga Parbat. The skin of rotten fruit broke, and matter oozed too thick to run. There was a terrible, sulphurous smell, like rotten eggs, and a tremendous pressure against my chest. They twisted and turned down the streets of Paris, the mix of mud and rotten straw on the ground making the three slip and slide as they took sharp corners. Unless and until she stops talking like an eighteenth century Tory oligarch in a rotten borough, the committee would be ill-advised to pick her as a candidate. The sicklebills are predominantly insectivorous and possess long down-curved bills which they use for digging insects out of rotten wood, or from behind bark. But the odds are higher that I will suffer immediate and drastic consequence from rotten food or impure water than I will from anger, spite and bitter words. He had rotten teeth, clumpy, nasty hair, and scratchy long fingernails. The operator on the end of the phone will speak flawless English, be chatty and polite and might even commiserate with you over the rotten weather where you live. However, this adaptation promises to be a far more rompingly gorgeous grotesquerie, complete with plenty of rotten teeth, cackling mockneys, tight corsets and a sadistic toff. This helps the fish breathe and keeps the water from smelling rotten. Better to assign a team of lively-but-conflicted writers to review a slew of rotten books than a gang of dullards to the most deserving releases of the season. They are spoiled rotten rich brats led by an attorney's son. Show More Sentences When a member of the qaddafi family wants to make your country his new home, you know things are rotten. It means, in essence, that less well-off communities should not suffer the double jeopardy of living in a rotten environment, just because they are less well-off. Nope, to survive, the Dragon Arum needs to attract carrion-eating pollinators, which means that in the breeding season it will smell of rotten meat for a few days. Every now and then, a film comes along that is so remarkably bad, so insanely dreadful, so utterly rotten that it actually makes you appreciate it. The motoring lobby had been protesting, like so many schoolboys banned from baking their conkers, that concealed speed cameras were a rotten swizz. Keep in mind that the objects are not rotten or smelly or discolored. It was rotten and decayed and completely disintegrated on impact. There was nothing I could do but put a brave face on it and go after them, but now my rheumatics are playing up something rotten and my truss is all rusty. Some retailers put bad or rotten fruit in the bottom of the basket. He is vividly, fearfully aware of how much worse things might get than the rotten, tottering system he upholds. The centre was completely rotten and the inner wood little more than mush. Previously, I've found him to be a fairly loathsome figure, the epitome of all that is rotten about the role of the spin doctor in modern politics. Robber fly adults lay eggs in the summer in soil or rotten wood. People show up at your gigs armed with rotten fruit to throw at you. Anne cannot sleep because of the air raids, and they are eating terribly-dry bread and ersatz coffee for breakfast, spinach and rotten potatoes for dinner. There were about ten of them, varying in age and height, but all with the same dark eyes and dirty faces, rotten teeth and tearful, pleading voices. The loyalist public relations battle had been well and truly lost and it was left to the politicians to try once again to paper over something most rotten. Few raise their voices to remember the thousands who suffered at the hands of the morally rotten medics who worked for the Imperial Army war effort. But the problem for this Government is that it is rotten to the core. If political stability could be achieved by toppling a rotten dictator or if nations could be built at gunpoint, this problem would not be so pressing. Show More Sentences Until we smash the whole rotten system, it will happen again and again. Well, of all the dirty, rotten, evil things for someone to do! I didn't stop to think that I was being pretty rotten myself. That's one reason that I thought she'd had a rotten time at the social. I feel ready, but I was pretty nervous yesterday after feeling so rotten. She's feeling rotten from the anaesthetic but otherwise she is fine. The last child is an eight-year-old girl and spoiled rotten. The city's convoluted electoral system is riddled with rotten boroughs, giving some corporate voters 4,000 times more punch than the votes of ordinary citizens. A squat, rouged woman with rotten front teeth opened the door. Elsewhere, concrete replaces rotten wood floors, window frames have been repaired, and a mezzanine was installed on the ground floor to expand exhibition space. If you were rotten, you might be a vole or an asp or a dung beetle. Like most men or women who attain distinction in their chosen sport, and whose competitive streak is almost visible, Harry is a self-confessed rotten loser. Inside, beige speckled porcelain tiles replaced rotten old floor boards. The source of the trouble lies to the north, where it spews its venom throughout the Great Kingdom, breeding dissension as rotten meat breeds maggots. By the time that you see them, they're bloated into surrealist Arcimboldo paintings, into soft constructions of rotten fruit. The assumption is that we need professional help to rid our rotten bodies of all the poisons and harmful chemicals accumulated during the season of overindulgence. Part of the restoration work involved cutting back half an inch of rotten stone from the front wall. If the authorities knew about the problems and chose not to prevent them, then clearly something is rotten in the state of Denmark. She spoiled him rotten and introduced him to a life that wasn't really good for him. Thankfully, the vast majority are without blame and it is the few rotten apples in the basket that think they are above the law. Show More Sentences He considered it rotten and forbade the use of popular Mongol names, habits, language, and clothing. The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. It is commonly believed that during the Middle Ages, pepper was used to conceal the taste of partially rotten meat. In February 1761 Blackstone was considered as a potential Tory candidate for the rotten borough of Hindon in Wiltshire. Dunwich was a parliamentary borough in Suffolk, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. The Whig party won almost all constituencies with genuine electorates, leaving the Tories with little more than the rotten boroughs. Although it did disenfranchise most rotten boroughs, a few remained, such as Totnes in Devon and Midhurst in Sussex. However, many rotten boroughs remained and it still excluded millions of working class men and all women. The Reform Act 1832 reduced the number of parliamentary boroughs by eliminating the rotten boroughs. Nevertheless, he did not advocate an immediate disfranchisement of rotten boroughs. They tested it with their feet, gingerly, making sure the wood wasn't rotten, then stepped onto it and shone their Maglites out into the void. He did not advocate an expansion of the electoral franchise, but he did seek to address bribery and rotten boroughs. But perhaps the individual who sums up the rotten self-regarding core of the English football team is David Beckham. The term rotten borough is sometimes used as a pejorative epithet for electorates used to gain political leverage. Caernarfon Castle's walls were intact, but buildings inside were rotten and falling down. In the parliamentary novels of Anthony Trollope rotten boroughs are a recurring theme. John Grey, Phineas Finn, and Lord Silverbridge are all elected by rotten boroughs. We need to discount those few rotten apples, we must work with good people, as its our challenge to build our nation. Pitt's entry into parliament is somewhat ironic as he later railed against the very same pocket and rotten boroughs that had given him his seat. They are as disgusted as the rest of us at the actions of a few rotten apples and superiors who have betrayed them. Show More Sentences If I digg'd up thy forefathers graves, And hung their rotten coffins up in chains, It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart. One of the first places for a gate to go rotten is at the junction of the brace and harr. If you leave a bin unattended for a few weeks, the rubbish inside will turn rotten. Up and down the ballot, while spending records fall like rotten fruit, the 2006 effort has been to disinform. Half the bad men are only coltish cowpunchers gone wrong through rotten whiskey and luck breaking bad for them. More than 20,000 tonnes of the bright green algae, which smells like rotten eggs, have been cleared by volunteers. I only wish they'd gone the whole hog and handed the studio audience rotten fruit to hurl at these misfits. Fittingly to that point, its rotten Tomato score was a flat 50 percent. We expect to be repelled by things like rotten food, suppurating wounds, and day-old road kill. The standard of debate was rotten, full of old platitudes on one side and new but confected outrage on the other. On the other hand, in this film Shanghai is presented not only as corrupt and rotten, but also as transpierced with erotica. But I think that, like many an old chestnut, this one is rotten. It has become apparent that this is a cess-pit of a society, a rotten society immersed in corruption. It has no x-ray machine or fluoroscope device to check felines for rotten teeth, or any other tools necessary for periodic tests on animals. When bacteria feeds on protein-rich diseased gum tissue, this process produces chemicals cadaverine and putrescine, which smell of rotten flesh. But as for the party, bedad, it's rotten to the core, and won't stand another session. We have all heard the adage about the rotten apple spoiling the rest of the barrel. The storeship Anna was so rotten below the waterline that she had to be abandoned and burnt. I GET chivvied something rotten about my bus pass by my good pal Peter the curly-locked carpenter. But they keep peddling them like a costermonger selling rotten fruit. Show More Sentences The odor added to LP is normally ethyl mercaptan, which smells like rotten eggs in order to detect the gas. So don't give every part of the community the same bad name because of a few rotten apples. But the rotten weather has been great news for shops selling rocksalt, shovels and snow chains. Candle ice is a form of rotten ice that develops in columns perpendicular to the surface of a lake. It takes no little effort to clear his name and dig out the rotten apple at the core of the Lothian and Borders force. Larval proctotrupids are mostly parasitoids of litter or rotten wood-inhabiting larvae. It is oily, dark and almost rotten tasting, but it did not make me unwell. Naylonfred had spoiled them rotten, making them selfish and demanding. We would send the boys out to pick up apples and they would almost always come back covered in apple mush after throwing the rotten ones at each other. It's as though Andy Townsend's takes my very soul and slaps it off the walls of a dirty close in Partick, then chucks it in a bin full of snottery hankies and rotten bridies. But he carried all sail till the rotten main-sheet parted at the boom, and when he came up in the wind to lower the sail the main throat halyard refused to unreeve. We passed the Great Bras d'Or on the ice at the imminent risk of our lives, so rotten had the ice become owing to the effect of five or six days incessive thaw. It smelled like rotten food, stinking bodies, and stale air. Feh! If the service is rotten and the meal a disaster, we should withhold a tip and explain why we are doing so. Few of us have the chutzpah to do this. When we got home, we found the plums were either over-ripe or rotten, the blackberries were the sourest we'd ever tasted and the beans were stringier than a rope factory. Scientists believe hydrogen sulphide gas which smells like rotten eggs from the deep ocean may have mixed with surface water, triggering the wipe-out. Stephen, that is when the accosting figure came to close quarters, though he was not in an over sober state himself recognised Corley's breath redolent of rotten cornjuice. The Reform Act of 1832 abolished its representation as a rotten borough. It is now to be hoped that those held responsible for what went on, were a few rotten apples and that they failed to infest the rest of the barrel. The carpenter ants live and breed in rotten stumps and fallen trees. Show More Sentences They probably all suffered heavily from damp and rotten floorboards and skirting boards as only high quality homes had a damp course in pre-1930 building regulations. Historically rotten and pocket boroughs, constituencies with unusually small populations, were used by wealthy families to gain parliamentary representation. That, though, is a Dhs100 too far for 7DAYS' tech titan and self-confessed Apple aficionado Megha Merani, who said eau de iPhone 5 reeked as bad as rotten apples. The evidence that this goes far deeper than one rotten apple has continued to stack up, and so a fresh pair of eyes looking at the case is very welcome. This was a wide franchise for the period, and its reasonable size meant that St Ives was one of the few Cornish boroughs that could claim not to be rotten. The problem is to find out which is the rotten apple and which is not. This made Old Sarum the most notorious of the rotten boroughs. Before being awarded a peerage, Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, served in the Irish House of Commons as a Member for the rotten borough of Trim. I watched as she changed from a dour sick thing to a strong healthy bird, feathers casting off their dull, rotten brown with sea salt watermarks to become deep slate blue. This rotten policy will create more injustice in this country. I was born in that stinking, rotten gubberment Mission. It was called the Lachlan River Mission, I dunno why they called it a Mission, God didn't live in that place. Certainly, the 9 bent iPhone 6s are the rotten apples that has the potential to damage the brand nurtured and grown by the late Steve Jobs and his friends. Like his father, he shrank from proposing the wholesale abolition of the rotten boroughs, advocating instead an increase in county representation. Examples from Classical Literature He alighted knee deep in water among the rotten bags, and all his observations were not recordable. She's the most like a medlar of any thing, for she's never ripe till she's rotten. Whether a stone underfoot gave way, or whether the Admiral's voice brought down a serac of rotten wall, is not clear. Does the insect collect resin impaired by the weather, soiled by the sanies of rotten wood? She was of about two hundred tons burthen, but must have-been old and rotten. I saw the saggy, rotten timbers that kept the State of Pennsylvania from cavin' in on us. This middle-class sentiment, or socialism, or whatever it may be, is rotten. I had on a pair of old breeches that had been sained in and dried so often they was about half rotten. She was perfectly rotten, and in the constructor's opinion not worth refitting. Passing the mouth of a box canyon I observed the footprints of a man in some old rotten lava formation. Find more words! 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