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

Antiseptics.—Medicines which prevent putridity in animal substances, and arrest putrefaction, when already existing.

From Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure by Jennings, Robert