Example Sentences

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I don’t know what they changed, but they must have changed something for the service to work so well for five months and so putridly after that.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2023

It was all eyes—wolfish and mocking—and the rugose insect-like head dissolved at the top to a thin stream of mist which curled putridly about and finally vanished up the chimney.

From The Shunned House by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)