Example Sentences

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“Ferment, mildew and a sort of compost half-rotted flavor.”

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2021

A musty, full-size cabin, its rickety walls and floor half-rotted and its rooms scattered with evocative artifacts.

From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2015

A sodden, half-rotted rug still lay across a low marble bench.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the outskirts of town, when we pass an orchard, I scamper up a tree to pick guavas, eating the sweetest, prettiest ones myself and tossing down the worm-eaten, half-rotted ones to the Doctorita.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

More refuse showered down from windows and balconies: half-rotted fruit, pails of beer, eggs that exploded into sulfu- rous stink when they cracked open on the ground.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin