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How to use putrefy in a sentence

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When an extremity has been invaded by bacteria and the blood supply is choked off, the limb begins to putrefy.
If these sugars cannot be broken down, they will sit in the large intestine and putrefy, leading to a bloated feeling and gas.
In Brunswick people think that if a menstruous woman assists at the killing of a pig, the pork will putrefy.
The body starts to putrefy within a minute or two of death, and bubbles of gas come up through the mouth.
And the minute that the magnificent, multifaceted Crenshaw arrives to putrefy all around him, the scene is set for classic comedy.
River water begins to putrefy when lack of oxygen promotes the growth of anaerobic bacteria, which produce the tell-tale smell of stale water.
Anything organic is going to putrefy or ferment very, very rapidly.
However, during the hot Polish summers, the bodies started to putrefy.
Ganges water does not putrefy, even after long periods of storage.
The bodies were left as a warning, to putrefy dangling in public.
Throughout history, from the Greeks with the four humors to the 19th century, the belief was that when flow obstructs, tissue will putrefy.
This process preserves the skin which would otherwise quickly putrefy or decay.
Thou didst not decay, thou didst not become worms, thou didst not wither, thou didst not rot, thou didst not putrefy, thou didst not turn into worms.
Similarly, one must never leave specimens, whether partially or completely dessicated, in a hermetically sealed container, since they will quickly putrefy.
Various species of bacteria then begin to decay and putrefy the dead algal bodies, the oxidation of which sharply reduces the amount of oxygen in the river water.
Examples from Classical Literature
Wounds carefully protected from contact with impure air do not suppurate, and organic fluids do not putrefy.
Thou makest the shells to swell, the wine to bubble, and the corpse to putrefy!
When the moisture of the breath is condensed and collected, it will putrefy.
It contained no urea, could be evaporated to dryness without offence, and showed no tendency to putrefy.
During that time they must be turned once or twice every day, lest they should putrefy or molder.
The filtrate was more ammoniacal than that obtained from sawdust, earth, or peat, but it never has shown any tendency to putrefy.
The corpse thus sheltered from contact with the air does not putrefy.
All the remainder was left to putrefy, or be devoured by wild beasts.
Stay either to putrefy with pleasure or to be embalmed in dulness?
They never bury their dead, but lay them in the sun to putrefy.
These, beginning to putrefy, were turning green beneath a river of blood.
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