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Example sentences for: decaying

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The stenches of decaying vegetable matter, hot foul water and human excretions intensify the effects of the heat.
The decaying, cream-colored building still exudes a certain haughty, if melancholy, grandeur.
The main streets are the narrow, cobbled alleyway of Rua de Santa Maria and, parallel, Rua Dom Carlos I. This east end of Funchal is the antithesis of the opulent hotel zone to the west: It is poor and decaying, but filled with character.
Unfortunately, as the number of nuns declined, the convent was forced to close, and the building, decaying year by year, played host to the best and busiest brothel in the city.
A piece warns that Russia's nuclear power plants are shabby and decaying.