Example Sentences

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Exactly how this old carbon is being freed from undecomposed plant matter remains uncertain.

From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026

Along the river, there are big peat bogs containing gigantic amounts of undecomposed dead plant material, which makes them significant carbon sinks.

From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2023

A dead monkey, still whole, still undecomposed, drifted back and forth with a certain precision upon those ripples and eddies without exit.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2017

Many curious noses sniffed at a tiny phial taken from TutankhAmen's tomb containing a minute smear of cosmetic cream still undecomposed.

From Time Magazine Archive

To do this we must get below the immediate surface, and take as our guide the gold occurring in the solid undecomposed quartz, and not the loose grains contained in the fissures and cavities.

From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Belt, Thomas