Example sentences for: decaying

How can you use “decaying” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The decaying, cream-colored building still exudes a certain haughty, if melancholy, grandeur.

  • In many mammals, air drawn into the nose is often highly contaminated with bacteria from fecal material, decaying animal and plant material, and noxious fumes from the environment, all of which attack the olfactory epithelium.

  • These new radioactive atoms are remarkably ephemeral, often decaying in millionths of a second into lighter elements by casting off subatomic particles, their fleeting lives documented only by vapor trails.

  • In a carnivalesque reassigning of roles, he hired a model to sweep away the flies from the decaying meat.

  • Jewish settlement in Palestine, then part of the decaying Ottoman Empire, only proceeded piecemeal.


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