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How to use putrefying in a sentence

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The putrefying smell carried through the broken compressed-air pipe to the trapped miners and, eventually, to the rescue workers.
It had that taste of something vile that had been slowly putrefying in the hot weather.
This protracted process resulted in a backlog of bodies that were often putrefying by the time they were cremated.
Scattered along the road from the capital were enough putrefying corpses to equip a west African military band.
On several occasions there have been massive mortalities of fish with thousands of putrefying steenbras, leervis and stumpnose washing up on the shore.
The taste was so putrefying that I felt as if I were about to double over.
And putrefying matter washed out due to rains will meet this filtering material and stay there allowing only water to pass through.
Below the military courtyard there is a reservoir, the walls of which have retained a reddish plaster used to stop the water putrefying.
Part of the protein which escapes digestion will reach the colon, where it acts as the substrate for putrefying bacteria.
They feed until the body is reduced to a putrefying mass, and then pupate within the shell.
Fats: These elements are decomposed by wild bacteria into putrefying derivatives such as fatty acids.
Now, weeks later, they have returned to find iceboxes full of maggots and putrefying chicken.
Drilling stopped in the area in 1993 but today the people still live in dire poverty, in the middle of putrefying oil slicks, despite promises to clean them up.
When the colon is habitually constipated and overtaken by putrefying bacteria, it may be desirable to make the colon completely sterile, but this ought to be done only under the supervision of an expert.
He tasted porcupine and bear, wrinkled his nose at cod cleaning and putrefying barrels of whale blubber, and felt the pain of tumbles down rocky slopes and head-on collisions with trees while jogging back to camp after dark.
This is the biggest single incident she can recall, but river walks in the summer months have long been accompanied by the stench of putrefying pig flesh. The cause of these pigs' demise is speculated.
Examples from Classical Literature
I expected to see them putrefying, running into sanies, like corpses left to rot in the open air.
He seemed to have a greenish tint like a corpse putrefying in a pond.
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