Rotting Sentence Examples

The sweet scent of rotting seaweed made her nose wrinkle.

On the night of the 5th of February the transit began, the cavalry leading the way through the snow-covered ice, which quickly thawed beneath the horses' hoofs so that the infantry which followed after had to wade through half an ell of sludge, fearing every moment lest the rotting ice should break beneath their feet.

The effects of badly-executed pruning, or rather hacking, are most noticeable in the case of forest trees, the mutilation of which often results in rotting, canker and other diseases.

The cut portions of bulky sets should be suffered to lie a short time before being planted, in order to dry the surface and prevent rotting; this should not, however, be done with such tropical subjects as caladiums, the tubers of which are often cut up into very small fragments for propagation, and of course require to be manipulated in a properly heated propagating pit.

The spores, which are set free by the rotting of the sporangial wall, germinate much as in the case of Selaginella, though the similarity may be a case of independent resemblance.

Most genera are saprophytes, but some - Chaetocladium, Piptocephalis - are parasites on other Mucorini, and one or two are associated casually with the rotting of tomatoes and other fruits, bulbs, &c., the fleshy parts of which are rapidly destroyed if once the hyphae gain entrance.

It is equally a soul or spirit in wine which inspires the intoxicated; the old Egyptian kings avoided wine at table and in libations, because it was the blood of rebels who had fought with the gods, and out of whose rotting bodies grew the vines; to drink the blood was to imbibe the soul of these rebels, and the frenzy of intoxication which followed was held to be possession by their spirits.

Retting or rotting is an operation of the greatest importance, and one in connexion with which in recent years numerous experiments have been made, and many projects and processes put forth, with the view of remedying the defects of the primitive system or altogether supplanting it.

Trametes radiciperda attacks the roots and penetrates to the stem, causing rotting of the wood; the disease is difficult to eradicate, as the mycelium of the fungus travels from root to root in the soil.

Rotting of the wood at the base of the trunk is also caused by Agaricus melleus, which spreads from root to root in the soil by means of its long purple-black, cord-like mycelial strands known as Rhizomorpha.

The rotting of tubers after lifting may be due to various causes, but the infection of the tubers by the Phytophthora already mentioned is a frequent source of this trouble, while "Winter Rot" is due to the fungus Nectria Solani.

Apart from numerous fermentation processes such as rotting, the soaking of skins for tanning, the preparation of indigo and of tobacco, hay, ensilage, &c., in all of which bacterial fermentations are concerned, attention may be especially directed to the following evidence of the supreme importance of Schizomycetes in agriculture and daily life.

It is a colourless, extremely poisonous gas, possessing a characteristic offensive smell, resembling that of rotting fish.

Nose wrinkling from the scent of rotting seaweed, she glanced towards the crumbling foundation of the beach house.

The muscles in her legs complained as she squatted behind the log, peering over the rotting bark.

The huge speckled ultramarine aardvark happily gorged itself on the rotting mango.

They should be used to help clear the backlog of rotting carcasses.

The problem was the rotting corpses in the hot sun.

His facial features alone take on the appearance of a rotting, human corpse.

In a wet spring however any such protective covering should be removed to avoid rotting of the young shoots.

Eventually, the dead, rotting material playing host to this variety of organisms, will totally disintegrate.

I realized I was eating the rotting flesh of dead animals - suddenly I made the connection.

Gazan butcher Mohammed Hadad opens the door to a walk-in fridge, releasing a pungent smell of rotting meat into his shop.

But it's like building your house with shallow foundations on an old rubbish tip full of rotting garbage.

Check for leaks - a leaking gutter is a common cause of rotting frames in a wooden greenhouse.

Lowland Wood Pasture, Parkland & Mature Trees Mature trees are those which are old enough to be hollow or contain rotting heartwood.

The break down of the rotting seaweed can attract hoards of flies.

By the time the rotting hulk landed, people were picking at the planks to find worms to eat.

Capital too lies idle, rotting by the day.

They are eminently dry-country plants (xerophytes); the narrow leaves are protected from loss of water by a thick cuticle, and have a well-developed sheath which embraces the stem and forms, with the sheaths of the other leaves of the rosette, a basin in which water collects, with fragments of rotting leaves and the like.

The most serious disease with which the bee-keeper has to contend is that commonly known as " bee-pest " or " foul brood," so called because of the young brood dying and rotting in the cells.

Well he did share it with rotting carcasses and we did a have a rather beery night.

Typical rotting caused by water ingress through cracked paint.

I even insinuate that it is our artificial lighting that is actually rotting the fruit on the tree.

As great a variety as possible of rotting wood microhabitats should therefore be encouraged within a woodland.

Rotting wood and a single tree are just two examples of larger microhabitats which can be endlessly scaled down into ever smaller microhabitats.

Rotting container A badly corroded container of radioactive uranyl nitrate was found by a European Union inspector during an investigation of Dounreay in March.

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We were intrigued to see what looked like an old naval steam pinnace drawn up on the shore, apparently rotting away.

The enormous mottled maroon pterodactyl sadly turned its nose up at the rotting cherry gateau.

Instead of venerating holy relics in Moscow, they began venerating the rotting mommy of their tyrant.

Remove dead leaves from around the basal rosettes of alpine plants to prevent rotting.

The media were covered in a yellow slime which, of course, was all solid fish waste slowly rotting down.

A rotting log can become a world of insect life and a home for beetles, including the increasingly uncommon stag beetle.

The whole planet seemed to have a stench of rotting vegetables.

The removal of a rotting tree stump may also allow for excavation within the ' shrine ' building.

What once may have been supple, rippling muscles were now tattered pieces of rotting flesh hanging off the bone.

Compost is called rotting vegetation, which is on its way to becoming rich, fertile soil.

The main room had two chairs made of nearly rotting wood, and a dirty kitchen.

The rotting of rhizomes, roots, &c., also comes into this category; but while it is extremely difficult in given cases to explain the course of events in detail, certain Fungi and bacteria have been so definitely associated with these roOtse.g.

It is not sufficient to find bacteria in the rotting tissues, however, nor even to be successful in infecting the plant through an artificial wound, unless very special and critical precautions are taken, and in many of the alleged cases of bacteriosis the saprophytic bacteria in the tissues are to be regarded as merely secondary agents.

Meanwhile charred and rotting stumps give a melancholy and untidy air to valleys and denuded hillsides, for hard-wood stumps - and most New Zealand trees are hard-woodtake more than a generation to decay utterly.

Very pungent smell at bottom of first drop, probably due to rotting sheep.

They increase as bacteria putrefy animal flesh, producing a strong rotting odor.

Our noses were assaulted by the putrefying smell of rotting flesh.

Joy turned to horror as father fieldmouse stumbled across the rotting corpse of Grandpa.

The fact is that there are so many rotting hulks out there and the number of restorations is a minute fraction of the total.

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Places that are strewn with litter and rotting rubbish attract vermin and disease.

There used to be a tannery in the town, which made the place stink of rotting cowhide.

We saw a large bin filled with rotting dead piglets amid a sea of writhing maggots.

Discard any that appear to be rotting because allowing them to touch other potatoes quickly spreads the rot.

By keeping paper out of landfills through recycling, less methane is produced from rotting trash.

Cattle that are dead, dying, and diseased or disabled (the "4 D's") can be used in pet food, and the dead cattle may have been lying in a pasture for days rotting.

Sometimes this begins below and spreads upward, but it generally begins above and spreads downward, the plant rotting off at the neck.

It resists rotting and weathering and looks beautiful for a long time.

The plastic component in Trex decking shields the wood from moisture and insect damage, so there's no rotting or splintering.

These tiles also provide adequate insulation and are resistant to rotting and considered fireproof.

Constructed to hold the weight of the winter's snow, there's no worry about your roof rotting, sagging or falling apart during a particularly bad winter.

It should be light and drain quickly to keep the roots from rotting.

Mold, wood deterioration or rotting baseboards can be a significant and costly problem.

Remove rotting or loose branches from trees promptly.

Landfill, trash collection center or junkyard - This used up energy of vehicles, rotting food and garbage attracts other deadly energies of rodents and insects that carry diseases.

When a goldfish has fin rot, the fin will look as if it is literally rotting away.

Examples of such occurrences include rapping, hammering, a piano being played and, most disturbingly, the smell of rotting flesh.

Perishables are rotting throughout the house.

While you want 'fresh' wood - you certainly don't want a stick that's been lying on the ground for weeks, slowly rotting - you also don't want to harm the tree that your wandwood comes from.

Gratacap, a New York City volunteer fireman and luggage designer, is responsible for the helmets' durability and ability to resist rotting thanks to the treatment he had learned to use on leather luggage that was used on the ocean.

Besides, if he was imprisoned for a crime like these murders, he'd still be rotting behind bars.

She did it again and again, moving into the brush, where the scent of rotting seaweed came from.

Special wound-cork is also often formed round accidental injuries so as to prevent the rotting of the tissues by the soaking in of rain and the entrance of fungal spores and bacteria.

Their formation has been attributed to the effect of rotting vegetation on the rock, but without certainty.

Though they see their gods eaten by others and by men, and burned, and slain, and rotting, they do not understand concerning them that they are no gods."

This fungus finds conditions suitable for growth when the potatoes are stored in a damp condition; rotting from this cause rarely occurs when they are dried before being placed in heaps.

In some variants of the story this shell is said to grow as a kind of mushroom on rotting timber in the sea, and is obviously one of the barnacles of the genus Lepas.

Collection was restricted by transport difficulties and letters in The Times tell of piles of rotting horse chestnuts at railroad stations.

As they approached the spring, the smell of rotting flesh was strong.

Hales (1727I 733) discussed the rotting of wounds, cankers, &c., but much had to be done with the microscope before any real progress was possible, and it is easily intelligible that until the theory of nutrition of the higher plants had been founded by the work of Ingenhouss, Priestley and De Saussure, the way was not even prepared for accurate knowledge of cryptogamic parasites and the diseases they induce.