was rotting
- past progressive of rot.
Example Sentences
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Some of it was necessary — our back deck was rotting away, roof damage etc., — and some of it was completely unnecessary.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025
Several people later went to the flat to conduct safety checks and noted a strong smell, but the freezer was taken away by removal workers in August 2020, who assumed the smell was rotting food.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2023
In untended fields, the cotton harvest was rotting.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2023
“For me, that was a great way in. Her heartache was rotting her heart and mind.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
In our last apartment, pre-Lenny, the countertop was rotting around the edges, so you’d realize halfway through washing dishes that water had been pooling downstream into the carpeting.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
