Example sentences for: rotten

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

  • As soon as you "get" the joke, say, of Gavin Turk depicting himself in a waxwork as Johnny Rotten, in the pose of Warhol's portrait of Elvis, there is not much left for aesthetic uplift.

  • Those Dirty Rotten Taxes , by Charles Adams

  • His prose oozes a kind of rotten poetry, and no observation is too banal to be left unspoken.

  • Their quick and dirty targets: the balanced budget; the booming economy; the campaign-finance scandal; the death of Diana, Princess of Wales; the stock market; Ellen ; race; sex in the military; Asia's economic meltdown; China; Tony Blair; Bosnia; Iraq; the menace of the tabloid press; Bill Clinton's good luck; Al Gore's rotten luck; porn on the Internet; Microsoft; Dolly.

  • Something smells rotten about the idea that you must surrender your opinion to your neighbor.


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