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Sentence Examples I think that some people behave in this aggressive and sadly bitter way because they live in a desperate, decaying society. The most impressive moment is the vaudeville-esque outro, fleshed out with seemingly decaying accordions. All of the planet was either polluted seas, barren wastelands, or decaying urban sprawl. The decaying sports grounds have been turned into wastelands and junkie hangout spots. In its final throes the decaying rock is whittled down into curious rounded shapes standing in a line, like a queue of shrouded figures. The adipocere could have formed in these conditions and would have helped prevent the body decaying in the water. Tough executives are tacitly understood to be well kempt on the outside, whilst inwardly crumbling, decaying, turning to sludge. Many of these products flowed off the stalls and onto the ground, where decaying wicker baskets protected them from the dust and dirt. A mechanism for their deactivation is proposed based on two different conformers decaying with different kinetics. But if published recruitment figures are to be believed, the party is no decaying monolith. The settlement need not be uniform, and could manifest itself in localised areas where the largest amount of decaying woody matter is present. He found that albuminoids derived from decaying vegetable substances did not have the same effect. While Schwarzbaum has a point, Trevor's physical form is clearly a representation of a decaying mental state. The decaying church building will be re-roofed, its stonework sandblasted and the spire will become part of one apartment. The original Victorian cast iron structure has been stripped back and exposed, its riveted, pitted hulk like a decaying ship's hull. Simply mix the liquid solution with water and sprinkle over your already decaying organic material. We want the ground between plants to be covered with decaying plant litter. Great oaks and trees that lived centuries ago held their broken branches, still fashioned to the ground by decaying roots. All very well is the advice to cut back decaying and gone-over plants, but my penstemons, rudbeckia, etc are still nice and green. Each radium atom is decaying into four more alpha-emitting radionuclides, creating in all 12,500 particles. Show More Sentences It is believed that the organism proliferates in decaying organic material, producing the toxins that are then taken up by animals. The investigation began with the discovery of a deer carcass, decaying and maggoty, that had been dumped at the school's front door. Mucor, a fungus from the class of Zygomycetes, is a ubiquitous saprophyte that resides in soil and decaying organic matter. The decaying wood also becomes home to a range of insects and small mammals. The crew bunks in a decaying hotel with infinitely unfurling tenebrous corridors. Nests are most often built in decaying tree trunks, but epiphyte root masses and occupied termitaries are also used. It is formed from decomposing underground deposits of organic matter such as decaying plant material. Dayra stood, menacing as always, and stared down at the crumpled mass lying on a pile of decaying straw in front of her, chained to the wall. We see time-lapse photography of plants springing to life and decaying, then images of floods, war and catastrophe. Contributing to the decaying process are microclimatic variations in temperature, humidity, and airflow. It is formed from decaying plant roots, leaves, etc. deposited at the surface, and the remains of microflora and microfauna living in the soil. Sometimes decaying tropical cyclones or the monsoon trough move well south into the central regions, bringing widespread rain and thunderstorms. In his review, he reveals a gift for decaying and moribund figures of speech. Maybe it's just me who's decaying, sinking into a state of complete insensibility, and not knowing what to do to fix it. Megapodes are sometimes referred to as mound-builders because of their habit of burying their eggs under mounds of decaying vegetation. Dipterans typically have sucking mouthparts, and may feed on plant juices or on decaying organic matter. Galorea shot off, ducking under the decaying beams that slanted over the wooden shanties. Strip malls are commonplace on the outskirts of boomburb and decaying town alike. Tucked among the trees on the northern end of the plains, I visited the decaying remains of a snarer's hut. He didn't get very far before he collapsed into a pile of pine needles and slowly decaying leaves, hurting, weak, and exhausted. Show More Sentences There was no stronger smell than that of a man decaying while he is yet alive and breathing. It is not fair or right to ask the local church to fund the necessary repairs to decaying buildings. Cracked seed coats will leak nutrients out of the seed area which can attract many seed decaying fungi. The waste products from fusion plants are short-lived, decaying to non-dangerous levels in a decade or two. Thousands of sporangia were also collected on a moss covered decaying conifer log on a ground site at night with the use of a flashlight. They replaced a decaying wooden Celtic cross that was in a dangerous and hazardous state. This is a fungus also caused by excess fish waste and food decaying in the bottom of the tank. Aspergillus is an ubiquitous fungus found in soil, water, and decaying vegetation. I stand to inherit a water penetration problem, caused not by my countless tea drinking, but by water decaying the roof beams in the lounge. In fact, they are slowly decaying Western ghost towns, relics of 19th-century homesteaders and gold seekers who abandoned them decades ago. More than 700 decaying homes are to be demolished and rebuilt in a sweeping multi-million regeneration programme. Her book seems to be about a woman trapped in two decaying relationships, one with her career and the other with her lover. This is another fine example of the decaying moral standards we are leaving behind for our young ones. Democracy under the Republic was decaying to the point at which political assassination was a commonplace. When it closed the canal was seen as a dirty, decaying relic of an industrial past, and it sank into decay and dereliction. However, once again, the declining field strength is best explained by an exponential decay of the field due to a decaying electric current. A foul odor of decaying flesh permeated the air of this subterranean charnel chamber. The pan-Arabism and socialist pretensions of the era have left only a few decaying fragments. It offends and horrifies us when we learn of decaying archaeological sites, looted museums and burning libraries. Recently it has commissioned a survey and also organised the planting of 35 new trees to replace decaying forest trees. Show More Sentences The unfortunate animal is immured in a box that also contains a radioactive source with a 50-50 chance of decaying within the next hour. The Indian pipe is a saprophyte, living chiefly on the decaying roots of other plants, particularly trees. The lake, however, has become a fertile subject of debate for joggers and authorities, who blame each other for the decaying of the water body. Executive fiats and judicial indifference are the hallmarks of a decaying democracy. The outer man is decaying through the trials of life, while the inner man is being strengthened through the same trials. Officers reported finding decaying milk on the nozzle of a fresh milk machine which could have caused salmonella poisoning. A modest economic recovery was staged, amid still decaying infrastructures and increasing social polarisation. We are called to be salt and light, preserving and irradiating this dark, decaying world with the grace of God in our Lord Jesus Christ. The decaying atoms emit positrons, which encounter electrons and are annihilated, releasing pairs of gamma rays. To shore up the decaying gazebo, they replaced the footings, added tongue-and-groove cedar on the ceiling, and reroofed with cedar shingles. Tenants signed the death warrant for the decaying four-storey block of flats after voting in favour of relocating. I was going to leave my glamorous life behind in this rich and prep place, back to the slums and ghettos of the slowly decaying city in the east. This would mean that the decaying matter was buried before it could be completely degraded to carbon dioxide and water. Most slugs eat decaying vegetation, but readily switch to young or delicate plants, feeding on the leaves, stems, roots and tubers. Still other chelicerates are tiny organisms which feed on detritus, the bits of decaying matter that accumulate on and below the ground. How is hands slowly would grip my hips as we pushed our ever decaying bodies closer to each other as the night died young. Piles of earth around the coffin showed it had recently been dug up, and it appears the decaying lid was smashed to get at the bones. Snails and tadpoles are nature's garbage disposals, feeding on decaying plant material and fish waste. The doctrinal orthodoxy of the day was McCarthyism in its final, decaying phase. A proper understanding of these images relies on a conversance with the doctrinal sources treating the decaying corpse as a subject for devotional practice. Show More Sentences 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. Graffiti artists have left their commentaries on the decaying concrete. The first thing I noticed upon entering the room, of course, was that the smell of decaying flowers had increased almost a hundredfold even from last night. Members of the genus Cryptocercus are subsocial, xylophagous cockroaches that inhabit damp, decaying logs of temperate forests in the Palearctic and Nearctic. Of fishes that have sunk to the lake floor, scavengers, feeding on the top surface of the decaying fish, cause the dispersal of bones to be less orderly, and breakage of bone. She believes that the moral fiber of our society is decaying. He warned that the tide of economic and social change would leave Swindon washed up, stranded and decaying if progress was not made with plans to overhaul the centre soon. Water snails don't eat living plants, just decaying vegetation and algae. In the second part of Henry IV Barrit's Falstaff, his face pocked with sores and his body decaying, became a more grotesque, more disturbing but also more exuberant figure. Water that runs over the ground carries with it eroded soil, decaying vegetation, living microorganisms, dissolved salts, and colloidal and suspended matter. 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. But artist's fungus and other wood fungi were seen on decaying trees. Let's face it, we're a nation of rubberneckers, eager to gawk at any accident, smoldering homestead, or decaying corpse as long as it is not our own. Among Puerto Ricans in New York City, home-built casitas in abandoned urban lots sprang up to recreate the garden life of a community amid decaying apartment projects. As darkness fell and Christmas lights came on in windows we would drive from one fusty home to another, greeting impossibly old and decaying and undoubtedly lonely people. It was happily in the writer's childhood that Mrs. Stowe had written of those who dwelt along the wooded seacoast and by the decaying, shipless harbors of Maine. Five tall, slender mushrooms with yellow stems and glowing orange caps reach through the decaying foliage toward the sky as ants burrow underground. Eleodes extricata is a widespread, grassland darkling beetle classified as a scavenger, feeding primarily on decaying vegetation, fungi, and seeds. Medical personnel fear an outbreak of cholera and other contagious diseases if the bodies of the corpses are not cleared before they start decaying. Most fungi are saprophytes, feeding on dead or decaying material. Show More Sentences Much of the sampled bark on older trees, especially Acer rubrum, was loosely attached and in various stages of decay, much like the bark on decaying logs on ground sites. She was wasting away, but still had a sort of decaying beauty. Project homes are not built to last but to be replaced, so they will begin to show their age, both in their out-of-date styling and their decaying structure. In the November darkness numerous candles were lit and placed around the entrance of the decaying art deco building as Ms Vine and her acolytes gathered around. Barcelona used its Games in 1992 to implement a wide-ranging urban renewal plan, transforming a decaying industrial city into a sought-after tourist destination. The final impression, however, is that Maxwell has missed a heaven-sent opportunity to treat the decaying variety theatre as a potent poetic symbol. Once constructed to ensure the safety of Bulgaria's rulers, they remain for the most part unused and neglected, decaying relics of a forgotten era. The planet's electromagnetic field is decaying due to the outer core of the Earth, itself a ball of trillions of tons of liquid metal, having stopped moving. It's unseasonably warm and sunny, as if God is trying to give New Yorkers a break and the sickly sweet smell of decaying flowers mixes with the acrid smoke. Businessman John Cross wanted to turn the dilapidated and decaying jetty into a shopping mall, bistro-style restaurant and a specialised apartment-style hotel. As it was frequently mentioned in Buddhist sutras, the practice of contemplating on a decaying corpse was adopted widely by monks regardless of their sectarian affiliations. The conditions of trench warfare on the western front are well known, including artillery barrages, body lice, and the stench of decaying animal flesh. The rainforests have almost no net effect on the world's oxygen levels, since decaying plant matter in the rainforests uses about as much oxygen as the rainforests produce. She reclaimed her title of countess and turned the decaying ancestral family seat into a house for homeless children at Wilsickow north of Berlin. A furore over footpaths is brewing in a South Lakeland village after taxpayers learned it could be nearly 10 years before decaying routes are repaired. Their loved ones would visit, tending to their decaying relatives, even changing their clothing. A decaying statue of St. Lucia, patron saint of the blind, holds a platter with two eyes. Of course, there are limits to building a candidacy on the decaying pillar of labor. Century, published by Simon and Schuster is a magical gothic tale about a strange family living in a dark, decaying mansion where it is always dark and eternally winter. The pair loved to take pictures in the decaying hospital on forty-third street. Show More Sentences Written in a direct and lively style, it denounced the decaying despotisms of Europe and pilloried hereditary monarchy as an absurdity. Apart from a few preserved buildings such as the museum and church at Grytviken, only their decaying remains survive. And, yes, it probably would give us some perverse pleasure to say 'Fuck you' to this decaying business model. The current decaying glaciers of Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro, and the Ruwenzori Range in east and central Africa were larger. In a radioactive decay process, this time constant is also the mean lifetime for decaying atoms. It was literally possible to walk for hundreds of yards at a time, stepping on nothing but dead and decaying flesh. One mechanism proposed is that not much copper is transported up the shoot of the plant, and is excreted from decaying leaves. This has left the disused and decaying tramway pier between the railway and promenade piers. Until the first half of the 6th century and in sharp contrast with the decaying West, the Byzantine economy was flourishing and resilient. In 2000, a zebra was reported to be infected with a nematode, halicephalobus, usually associated with decaying plant material. Turkmeni marching lords seized land around the western part of the Silk Road from the decaying Byzantine Empire. This is due to plant material in flooded areas decaying in an anaerobic environment, and forming methane, a greenhouse gas. You are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same organic and decaying matter as everyone else. He abhors his decaying portrait, which pitilessly shows him the way of all flesh. The church, that before by insensible degrees welked and impaired, now with large steps went down hill decaying. Cryptococcus gattii, a fungal pathogen found in the environment, is associated with soil and decaying organic debris. You'll see an old pickup truck covered with flowering vines, decaying outbuildings, even an old Quonset hut. Gbadolite, home to deposed kleptocrat Mobutu Sese Seko's now decaying jungle palace, has also applied for commercial service. So the approach can work to keep carbon that has become bound up in plant life from decaying and respiring as carbon dioxide. In Maria, Efrain leaves a decaying plantocracy to spend his formative school years in Bogota. Show More Sentences Halfway between decaying fish and old cheese, it was a smell that Shug the dug's owners couldn't forget. And experts fear the decaying remains may be infected with a deadly tapeworm which can cause the fatal hydatid disease. These allelochemicals also affected corn seedlings either by decaying of hypocotyls or by producing of dwarf plants. Although staphylinids have diverse habits, they are frequently found near decaying material or beneath logs, stones or other debris. The phonological loop is a limited-capacity system in which decaying traces may be refreshed by subvocal rehearsal. But one changes from heat to cold into a kind of congealment reminiscent of the end of time, in which decaying corpses change to be born again. In particular the general hypothesis is valid if the steady solution is the sum of the critically decaying flux carrier with flux and a small subcritically decaying term. The discovered pentaquarks exist for only a little more than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second before decaying into other particles, Grant says. On these he encountered a diseased man, a decaying corpse, and an ascetic. Untouched by the decaying middens in which they live, they emerge into the sunshine immaculate and serene. The Burmese must be the best-dressed people in the world. Common frogs hibernate in running waters, muddy burrows, or in layers of decaying leaves and mud at the bottom of ponds or lakes primarily with a current. If energy circumstances are favorable, a given radionuclide may undergo many competing types of decay, with some atoms decaying by one route, and others decaying by another. Also known as crane flies, their larvae, called leatherjackets, feed through autumn, winter and spring on decaying plant material and plant roots just below the soil surface. Here, in a decaying cluster of buildings, the Winnipeg train turns gratefully back to the south and hurries to leave behind it the anonymous tangle of forests and muskegs. It's astonishing how you can pump out a pit filled with rank wastewater, maggots, insects and decaying rodents, yet a little poopy diaper sends you squealing. One such fungus is Rhizopus microsporus, a zygomycete found on decaying organic matter, which has previously been reported only in patients who are profoundly immunosupressed. Proposals on a growing list range from decaying superheavy particles in this galaxy to colliding cosmic strings of energy stretching across all of space. Examples from Classical Literature Their aquaria must be kept free from green plants, and have a layer of fine mud, with a few decaying leaves, in the bottom. It is chemotropism, not solicitude for its offspring, which drives the flesh fly to lay its eggs on decaying meat. Black decaying trunks of trees stood up at various angles, often bristling with dead branches like chevaux-de-frise. They said that these things were absolutely begotten in the water of the decaying substances out of which the infusion was made. Precisely at the time when Ireland was decaying, all other Western nations were flourishing. It is an entropy of history itself, slowly decaying into chaotic repetition. I'm glad to get away alive from the decaying millions of oysters at the fishery. Any atom might be hit, blazing, into fission and decaying into other elements. This decaying is a very complicated process, being preceded in every case by a suberization and thickening of the cell walls. Silence broods in the arena, and in every interstice the maidenhair fern grows rife among the decaying stones. There were decaying patches on the fungus growths and a miasmal mist was descending from it toward the ship. There were laws upon laws, endeavours to underpin the framework of a decaying society. My life seemed only a vermiculate one, a crawling about of half-thoughts-half-feelings through the corpse of a decaying existence. One edible relative of the oyster mushroom grows usually on decaying elm stumps as late in the year as November. The other day I saw a yellow-bellied woodpecker alight upon a decaying beech and proceed to drill for a grub. The putrescent are composed of decayed, or decaying, vegetable and animal substances. Thus, from the sixteenth century onward, the press, raised to the level of decaying architecture, contends with it and kills it. In fallen leaves and decaying wood in xeric and mesic hammock habitats. The only sound above our breathing was the sucking noise of our feet as we lifted them from the ooze of decaying flesh through which we crept. My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. Show More Sentences A little, dusky-coloured wren hops in a skulking manner among the entangled mass of the fallen and decaying trunks. One evening, he was sitting, in utter dejection and prostration, by a few decaying brands, where his coarse supper was baking. It is found on decaying limbs and stumps from July to winter. The royalty of his powers he saw by degrees torn from his decaying form. But Napoleon turned to other work and Turkey went on decaying. Down the railroad they went and sat on a pile of decaying railroad ties beside the tracks. In one bottle, containing decaying chara, paramecia abounded. The glow, which they had just before beheld burning on his cheek, was extinguished, like a flame that sinks down hopelessly among the late decaying embers. A delicate pathos perfumed her disconnected remarks, giving them unexpected beauty, just as in the decaying autumn woods there sometimes rise odours reminiscent of spring. Now members of local theatre group, The Scissett Stage Door Theatre Company, have submitted plans to Kirklees Council to resurrect the decaying building for community use. Against the peaceful landscape, the pale, decaying tints of the copses, the blue air of the horizon and the lichened stileboards, these staring vermilion words shone forth. So I, borrowing nothing and repaying Nothing, neither growing nor decaying, Myself am to myself, a mortal God, a self-contained Unwindowed monad, unindebted and unstained. 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What is the opposite of decaying? Words that rhyme with decaying What is the plural of decaying? What is the adverb for decaying? What is the adjective for decaying? What is the noun for decaying? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words decayed decay Decatur decathlon decathletes decathlete Decaying decays decca Deccan decease deceased 8-letter Words Starting With d de dec deca decay decayi decayin