Example Sentences

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Instead, they were decaying in a bug-infested building about two hours south of Denver.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024

Atoka had fallen on hard times: Residents had moved away, and downtown buildings were decaying.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2023

Wooden benches were decaying, and weeds were growing beneath them.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2016

Sometimes his paintings are packed with apparent spots of mold, as if the canvas itself were decaying.

From Time Magazine Archive

The last withered leaves were decaying and falling one by one upon the still pond….

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert