Example Sentences

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Without them, we’d live in a world of putridity and pestilence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

But an equally alarming problem surfaced as offenses reached new levels of putridity.

From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2017

They found meat at Navy depots to be "garbage and putridity in a horrible state".

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2013

I love the crazy steeplechase of the NFL season, but there's some justice to Bill Simmons' complaints about the era of "perpetual putridity."

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2011

He dwelt among those Greek and Roman authors who excelled in exploiting the basest emotions and made poems out of putridity.

From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert