How To Use Decay In A Sentence

A statistical model for decay and formation of heavy hadronic resonances is formulated.
This increases the concentration in the mouth of bacteria that can cause tooth and gum decay. Times, Sunday Times
The decay of the meat could have been prevented by proper refrigeration.
Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) has the ability to survive in a highly acidic environment, which is what makes it such a nasty tooth-decayer: remember, it’s the acid bacteria produce as they consume carbohydrates that eats away at tooth enamel. Paging all you "Face on Mars" believers...
How often I have I known him affect an open brow and a jovial manner, joining in the games of the gentry, and even in the sports of the common people, in order to invest himself with a temporary degree of popularity; while, in fact, his heart was bursting to witness what he called the degeneracy of the times, the decay of activity among the aged, and the want of zeal in the rising generation. Redgauntlet

The fragrance evoked an aroma of fruits and flowers so ripe, they are starting to decay, reminding us of Thanatos, which is forever inseparable from Eros. Archive 2007-07-01
retting" which separates the fibre from the decaying part of the plant. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
I have completed a monument more lasting than bronze and higher than the decaying Pyramids of kings, which cannot be destroyed by gnawing rain nor wild north wind, or by the unnumbered procession of the years and flight of time.
Age is here, but it does not suggest the idea of dilapidation or decay; rather of something which has been put under a glass case, and preserved with care from all extraneous influences. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture
Enhanced algae growth in the reservoir consumes the oxygen in the epilimnion and, as it decays, the mass sinks to the already oxygen-deficient hypolimnion, where decay processes reduce the oxygen concentration even further, resulting in acid conditions at lower levels and the dissolution of minerals from the reservoir bed. Chapter 8
Each radium atom is decaying into four more alpha-emitting radionuclides, creating in all 12,500 particles.
But Ngurn's father, wrapped in decaying grass-matting and hanging even then over their heads among the smoky rafters of the devil-devil house, had held otherwise. THE RED ONE
Barcelona used its Games in 1992 to implement a wide-ranging urban renewal plan, transforming a decaying industrial city into a sought-after tourist destination.
If ID is so down with genetic decay, they wouldn’t resist the idea of vestigial organs. Genomics and the vacuity of Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb
The mangroves' waterlogged roots decayed into peat, and the peat's acidity and lack of oxygen kept the wood from rotting.
Not only can vermin arise from decaying matter but that lice can originate form sweat.
Thus to this congregation of excellent, undeceiving refuge, we pray that by the power of this prayer expressed from a heart filled with fervent devotion and humility, may the body, speech and mind of the sole of the Land of Snows, the supreme Ngawang Lobsang Tenzin Gyatso, be indestructible, unfluctuating and unceasing; may he live immutable for a hundred aeons, seated on a diamond throne, transcending decay and destruction. The Long Life Prayer for the 14th Dalai Lama
The dentist could detect no sign of decay in her teeth.
Water snails don't eat living plants, just decaying vegetation and algae.
Today Science tells us the speed of light is decaying, the magnetic field is collapsing, the earth is slowly beginning to wobble on its axis, the protective ozone layer is thinning.
Cities can either grow and prosper, or they decline and decay.
More than a quarter also have tooth decay. Times, Sunday Times
He explores in his art the dynamics of decay without ignoring the comedic ironies of living.
Some of these excitons emit light when they decay to the ground state.
Instead of personal gain-seeking being viewed as the mainspring of progress, it was perceived to sow the seeds for economic polarization, and hence social discord and decay.
Without a power source, this current would decay.
In the course of numerical calculation, we have sufficiently considered the restrictions from and lepton flavor violation decay experiment and all kinds of neutrino experimental data.
Borates are the most effective treatment for many crawling insects including, roaches, silverfish, larder beetles, carpenter ants, and other woodborers, as well as wood decay organisms.
At least five species of Pythium cause seed decay, damping off, and root rot of soybean.
I closed the door quickly against the odour of rot and decay it emitted. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
Anti-fluoride campaigners say there is no conclusive evidence that fluoridation is safe or prevents decay.
The castle narrowly failed to win cash from BBC TV's Restoration competition in 2003, leading to fears that the building might decay completely.
Today, the once-grand streets are characterized by decaying HMOs, sorely in need not just of redecoration but more fundamental repair.
Then your dentist removes any decay using a drill.
The assumption is that a radio-active substance, like uranium, "decays," or passes into many other substances, of which radium is one, finally producing lead in 1,000,000,000 years or more. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
Planetary characteristics are defined by these humoural temperaments where, as in nature, warmth and moisture promote health and vitality whilst cold and dryness are conducive to decay.
It seems likely, therefore, not only that most of the nematodes will on analysis turn out to be hydrophilous, but also that in this highly organic but waterlogged soil, they may feed largely on decaying organic matter.
First, it is a highly conserved component of eukaryotic mRNA decay machinery.
Yet there's something sad about the collapse of what inspired so many as an ideal: something melancholy in its decay. Times, Sunday Times
The principles of alpha decay are used in radioactive dating, in which half-lives play an important part.
An optimistic theory of evolutionary progress was surreptitiously beginning to replace the pessimistic doctrine of universal decay.
But he insisted that organized religion needed to meet the challenge of social unrest and moral decay.
In many ways we have fallen into a similar pattern of disobedience, and need the gracious intervention of God to deliver us from spiritual and moral decay.
Decayed heartwood may sufficiently weaken trees enough to increase ice and wind mortality.
The country's decaying economy could be the spark that ignites its already combustible streets.
Without a lot of money(Sentencedict), the mayor won't be able to stop urban decay.
Just a pile of decaying mulch around my desk. Times, Sunday Times
The Association, whose anniversary we celebrate to-night, was founded seven years ago, for the purpose of granting permanent pensions to such of the corps dramatique as had retired from the stage, either from a decline in their years or a decay of their powers. Speeches: Literary and Social
We feel the man's pomposity and age, taste the heat and sweat of his desperation in the grip of beauty and decay. Times, Sunday Times
It proposed an ambitious programme of investment and the designation of Cabinet colleagues as ministers for various decaying areas.
Imagine what will happen to worker productivity and health-care costs if they all buy into the prevailing images of decline and decay.
The rainforests have almost no net effect on the world's oxygen levels, since decaying plant matter in the rainforests uses about as much oxygen as the rainforests produce.
The advice was not restricted to the prevention of tooth decay.
This particular arrangement of nucleons is unstable and so tritium readily undergoes radioactive decay to yield a helium atom.
Intellectual deterioration leads to political decay.
A sealant is a plastic material that is placed on the chewing surface up close to your teeth and it protects your teeth from bacteria getting into the deep pits and grooves and getting decayed," said Susan Schroeder, an IUSB dental student helping put on the clinic. WNDU - Home - Headlines
Sinai, grey granite dyked with decaying porphyritic trap, and everywhere veined with white and various-coloured quartzes. The Land of Midian
Such modelling depends on the heat output, thermal decay and other properties of the waste and geological factors such as thermal conductivities and diffusivities of the host rock.
How can an electron be ejected from a nucleus during a Beta Wave decay?
After doing research on the net I see that those spots are early signs of decay, the teeth are decalcified in those white spots? White Spots On Teeth-Enamel Hypoplasia
The decorative plasterwork bubbled and decayed; ceilings were held up by scaffolding. Times, Sunday Times
Our sport is rife with that same insidious elitism that has decayed the core of other field sports, which now face the very real prospect of being outlawed.
The decaying body might affect stamina but has no other influence on artistic product. Times, Sunday Times
In addition to primeval heat, Earth's core also gets heat from radioactive decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
Children from deprived areas are more likely to suffer tooth decay than those from better-off backgrounds.
The decaying body might affect stamina but has no other influence on artistic product. Times, Sunday Times
What was all that guff about choosing whether'to build the infrastructure our economy needs or letting it decay '? Times, Sunday Times
The town and the country around is employed in the manufacture of stockings, and which was once famous for making the finest, best, and highest-prize knit stocking in England; but that trade now is much decayed by the increase of the knitting-stocking engine or frame, which has destroyed the hand-knitting trade for fine stockings through the whole kingdom, of which I shall speak more in its place. From London to Land's End
They loaded me up with happy gas, told me I had an abscess (eww), drilled out some decay and took $200 out of my pocket.
But as they struggled to adapt to the modern era, dissolution, decadence and decay set in. Times, Sunday Times
Ratios of naturally occurring radioactive minerals to their decay daughters can be used in determining the age of geological materials.
Now, however, the great Latin cities fell prey to widespread depopulation, economic decline, and physical decay.
Its powerful bill enabled it to break, and its capacious, stone-supplied gizzard to digest, the hardest shells and kernels; and thus a kind of frugivorous vulture, it cleared away the decaying vegetable matter. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852
Malan identified what he calls the purging of whites from the ranks of civil service as the root cause of the decay. ANC Daily News Briefing
A few suburbs have flourished, while the inner city has decayed and once relatively stable working class communities have deteriorated.
Tough executives are tacitly understood to be well kempt on the outside, whilst inwardly crumbling, decaying, turning to sludge.
If you notice black sooty fungus, brown or black spots of decay on leaves or flowers, or broken discoloration on leaves or stems of your orchids, they may be harboring a fungus, bacteria or virus.
God damn that Chabon, dragging it out of the grave where she and the other serious writers had buried it to save serious literature from its polluting touch, the horror of its blank, pustular face, the lifeless, meaningless glare of its decaying eyes! Writing
I should apologise, but I'm not going to - because if, like me, you're a non-driver and you live in London, the tube is still the primary way of getting around, and thus you're faced with its decaying and troublesome service every day.
'Sure," Liz nodded, thinking of the sweet cidery smell of decaying apples pervading her study from the ageing box in the corner. AN OLDER WOMAN
Crest has been shown to be an effective decay-preventive dentifrice when used in a conscientiously-applied program of oral hygiene and regular professional care. Quixote Bronson, Savior of Neglected Suburban Housewives
As he entered the weather and slowed down for the instrument approach, the hydraulic system began cycling valves and reverting to backup systems due to the decay of windmilling RPM on the number two engine.
In their wake, the giant auto concerns leave behind an industrial wasteland of mass unemployment, ruined infrastructure and social decay.
The isotope with 177 neutrons decays down to dubnium (atomic number 105), whereas the isotope with 176 neutrons decays down to roentgenium (atomic number 111). Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews
A few had burst open, and were liquescent with decay. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
If they are old enough, explain about tooth decay and why it's important to get back to healthy food. The Sun
After the production of this oospore the parent filament gradually loses its vitality and slowly decays. Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884
There was no stronger smell than that of a man decaying while he is yet alive and breathing.
Drying foods does not stop the enzymatic action that causes fruit to mature and decay; it only slows it down.
This week my graduate seminar students (at Parsons Fine Arts MFA) and I had a great discussion leading from Robert Smithson's writings on entropy to issues of pessimism about social change and what might be the point of human intervention towards ideals of progressive social activism in an entropically irreversible situation: interesting in this light to read Bob Herbert Op-Ed piece in the October 26, 2010 copy of The New York Times, "The Corrosion of America": do we just go along "haplessly"/hopelessly with the flow of entropy and the corrosion and ruin of our infrastructure (a ruin which is in a sense "always already" from before its inception, in Smithson's example of "The Monuments of Passaic") creating or suggesting an art which does not try to impose an idealist order or moral value to an entropic situation of urban and suburban decay, or do we believe enough in human labor despite ultimate futility or mortality to make the investment in our near futures by fixing the infrastructure? Mira Schor: Corroded infrastructure 2010/Robert Smithson's Writings on Entropy, 1966-67
For example the Dental School at the University of Queensland is a leader in elucidating the causes and solutions for dental decay, caries.
A smell of decay pervaded the air.
Decay rates were obtained from counting rates by using an external standard and a quench calibration curve.
Russian sport depends on the old Soviet structures that once produced such success but have decayed. Times, Sunday Times
Most fungi are saprophytes, feeding on dead or decaying material.
Century, published by Simon and Schuster is a magical gothic tale about a strange family living in a dark, decaying mansion where it is always dark and eternally winter.
Unemployment and inner city decay are inseparable issues which must be tackled together.
the phosphorescent glow of decaying wood
But it is unseemly to see such a Grand Potentate in such a state of decay: the son of Bajazet Ilderim insolvent; the descendants of the Prophet bullied by Calmucs and English and whipper-snapper Frenchmen; the Fountain of Magnificence done up, and obliged to coin pewter! Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
Even in those parts of des where peculiar means are used to get rid of the dead – the Tibetans, for example, grind up corpses into keema which is fed to the local vultures – it is an act of desperation, in this case a reaction to the unfortunate habit corpses have of refusing to decay at high altitudes. Ways of Dying
The dashed line is a gluon, which transmits colour charge and momentum to the final state, mediating the decay. meson equals 1019.4 MeV, which is just a little bit more than twice the mass of the charged kaons (493.7 MeV). Scientific Blogging
As the potassium decays into another element, argon, over incredibly long timespans, dates could be established.
But how do you put a price on what we sell, which is more impalpable, insidious, sad and empty than the decay that you read here?
The tree began to decay as soon as it was cut down.
The tree was badly decayed and in 1814 it blew down.
‘Along with fizzy drinks, sweets are the main cause of tooth decay which affects around half of children in the UK,’ he fumed.
It was this symbiosis between large herbivores and micro-organisms that sustained biological decay as well as adequate disturbance on a periodic basis.
It is unstable, and scientists know that it radioactively decays by electron emission to Nitrogen 14, with a half life of 5730 years.
These ‘units' form aggregates / crystallites that precipitate in association with decaying organic matter in sediments.
Dental caries or tooth decay remains the single most common disease of childhood that is neither self-limiting nor amenable to short term medical treatment and yet is preventable.
But we might remember too that the litter and discard which accompany decay are interesting in their heterogeneity: juxtapositions of fibula and quernstone, gold ring and ox scapula in sifting through the cultural rubbish tip.
Corn seed is generally treated with fungicides to prevent seed decays and seedling blights.
The policy stated that ‘the site, position or fitting of the attachment or sign should not promote decay in the pole or impede testing for decay.’
Some of her teeth were very badly decayed.
Since that survey took place, more slums have been cleared and more dwellings repaired and improved, but likewise more will have decayed and declined. Introduction to Social Administration in Britain
I know not how many hundred years old it is, but everything of Gothic origin has a faculty of conveying the idea of age; whereas classic forms seem to have nothing to do with time, and so lose the kind of impressiveness that arises from suggestions of decay and the past. Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
To help prevent leaks, moisture seepage and decay problems, check your roof for weak areas.
When not removed, plaque causes tooth decay and gum disease.
Many of the photographs had been up on the wall for years, their unfixed images decaying further in the light. SACRAMENT
The aim is to use the detector to try to observe a theoretical atomic event called neutrinoless double-beta decay - a radioactive process whereby an atomic nucleus releases two electrons and no neutrinos. PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter, formed over hundreds of thousands of years. Times, Sunday Times
Are to be gathered after the new bulb is perfected, and before it has begun to vegetate, which is at the time the leaves decay. General directions for collecting and drying medicinal substances of the vegetable kingdom : list and description of indigenous plants, etc., their medicinal properties, forms of administration, and doses,
Fig. 4 compares the decay of the excited state for the native trimer and the solubilized monomer.
It proposed an ambitious programme of investment and the designation of Cabinet colleagues as ministers for various decaying areas.
D., there began to appear on the Roman horizon disturbing signs of cultural decline and moral decay.
The oozy goo of reproduction and decay impinges darkly on the tidy geometrical regularity of a bogus suburban milieu.
The directors shot the film on location in and around New York City, and you can almost smell the decadence and decay.
Over time, the plant growth not only concealed the structures; it also contributed greatly to their decay.
Increased consumption has the potential to increase the number of traffic accidents, increase crime and contribute to the moral decay of the community, she said.
It relies on an analysis of how much of a radioactive isotope has decayed into its daughter isotope.
A class is created of dogged self-righteous obstructionists with a vested interest in the status quo, however obsolescent, however decayed, however inappropriate to the site.
For all its wacky irreverence, it is also a rather touching story of moral decay in an uncivilized world.
Her body was already starting to decay.
The guide stopped to show us some beetles who live in decaying wood.
The foetor of decay hung over the town, clogging her throat like putrid dust. The Silicon Mage
The only conservation that should take place should be that which attempts to stop processes of decay. Times, Sunday Times
Lego is, like, the perfect device to enculturate a citizenry intolerant of smell, intestinal by-products, nonadherence to unified standards, decay, blurred edges, germination, and death. Microserfs
On the other, is the rural enclave with archaic traditional technological knowledge which is fast decaying.
Soviet Communism had discouraged travel; the old comfortably flea-ridden hans had decayed. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
This colossal structure of iron and glass, despite the gradual decay and depletion it suffered over the 82 years of its existence, had not lost its ability to amaze.
The whole then became consolidated by the percolation of calcareous matter; and the cylindrical cavities left by the decaying of the wood, were thus also filled up with a hard pseudo-stalactical stone. Chapter XIX
A radioactive source will emit these radiations at various frequencies, depending on its activity and its decay mode.
His career and his personal life were a grotesque mirror image of decay. Times, Sunday Times
Due to infrequent maintenance in recent decades, many of the city's grand structures are in terminal decay, undone by the vandalism of official apathy.
They leaped at the chance to tut-tut predictably about social decay.
Then he looked round for the people of the island: but instead of men, women, and children, he found nothing but turnips and radishes, beet and mangold wurzel, without a single green leaf among them, and half of them burst and decayed, with toad-stools growing out of them. The Water Babies
That is not the true image; no! he should have been a growthless, decayless being, impassive to time or season, a silent cloud -- the wandering Jew. Famous Reviews
Decaying cities often portend the failure of a state.
Her head was spinning; the smell of rot and decay intensified, swirled in eddies around her.
Beta ‘rays’ are actually electrons ejected from decaying neutrons, and are now more often referred to as Beta emission or Beta particles.
The sea cucumber feeds on small plants and decayed debris that settles into seafloor sand and mud.
Graham and Slater walked down the narrow alley formed by the seedy, decaying stonework and the painted wood.
He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule, condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay.
Many of these products flowed off the stalls and onto the ground, where decaying wicker baskets protected them from the dust and dirt.
A gust of wind blasts against his face, carrying with it the scent of rot and decay and the suggestion of whispers.
Fallout from these, particularly decay products of the gaseous thoron, were what the cleanup crews detected - not a nuclear reaction involving neutrons. Archive 2003-09-01
Being Dead found beauty in physical decay. Times, Sunday Times
He had fame at his fingertips, only to reject it for a life that lurched from decadence to decay. Times, Sunday Times
The sight sickened her, as the smell reached her nostrils - decay, excrement and urine.
The autocorrelations did not decay to zero because there was very little retraction.
In Orthodox Europe, mass religion seems to have decayed less.
What becomes of your spirit while your corporeal remains decay?
Molds thrive in damp areas with decaying materials. Atopic dermatitis, eczema treatments
Sugar, on its own, is not only tasty to us humans, but bacteria like it too - it can cause problems ranging from tooth decay to yeast infections, resulting from the growth of candida in the digestive tract.
The second hazard is that old bugaboo, moisture, encouraging mildew growth and eventual decay.
Sugar decays your teeth.
Chewing gum can remove up to 100million bacteria in just ten minutes, reducing your risk of tooth decay. The Sun
Instead of hecatombs of fat oxen sacrificed by the tribes of a wealthy city to their tutelar deity the emperor complains that he found only a single goose, provided at the expense of a priest, the pale and solitary in habitant of this decayed temple. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
World is all decayed down into due attritus of this sort; and shall now be exploded, and new-made! The French Revolution
Part of the problem is that as the radioactive substance decays, most of the electrons miss the silicon surface.
The interior proves to be equally unattractive: a mix of dull carpets, decaying furniture, and bleak beige walls.
Some scientists now believe that smoking may store up liability to stress and cause mental illness as well as physical decay.
Corn crown and root decay can weaken stalks and complicate harvest.
In their view, Spengler diagnosed the main historical trends of human society and accurately predicted the fate of decaying bourgeois society.
The mage mystically attacks a material object, causing it to decay instantly .
Whatever the cause, his brain had a rift of ruin in it, from the start, and though his delicate touch often stole a new grace from classic antiquity, it was the frangibility, the quick decay, the fall of all lovely and noble things, that excited and engaged him. A Study Of Hawthorne
He also said that the trend could help breathe new life into decaying commercial areas and parades of shops. Times, Sunday Times
It was rotten and decayed and completely disintegrated on impact.
The only missing one was element number 61, which was eventually isolated from the debris of the radioactive decay of uranium and given the name of promethium, after the Greek god who gave man fire.
According to Palatinit, the approval of isomaltulose as a non-cariogenic sweetener could lead to new opportunities for product development and specific dental health claims, such as "does not promote tooth decay" or "may reduce the risk of dental caries". FDA Approves New Sugar Substitute
Each of these discovered a new aesthetic through the gradual decay of its high cultural forms.
The orbit of a space satellite decayed.
_Calcium nitrate_, Ca (NO_3) _2·4H_2O, is a highly deliquescent salt, [v. 04 p. 0972] crystallizing in monoclinic prisms, and occurring in various natural waters, as an efflorescence in limestone caverns, and in the neighbourhood of decaying nitrogenous organic matter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
The final impression, however, is that Maxwell has missed a heaven-sent opportunity to treat the decaying variety theatre as a potent poetic symbol.
(Presumably, the need for a license is a matter of degree, given that our own bodies contain radioactive potassium-40, and given that the walls of most buildings contain the radioactive isotopes from the natural uranium-238 and thorium-232 decay chains). Archive 2009-04-01
In Jerusalem, with its fetid atmosphere of intellectual decay, everyone, from the master and his wife to the nightsoil man who empties the college privies, has their eye on the main chance. The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor – review
A free neutron, for example, will decay with a half-life of about 18 minutes into a proton, electron and antielectron-neutrino, due to a down quark decaying into an up quark via the emission of a virtual W- particle. Your Favorite Conservatives on Evolution and ID - The Panda's Thumb
We want the ground between plants to be covered with decaying plant litter.
If even a single atom of the substance decays during the test period, a relay mechanism will trip a hammer, which will, in turn, break the vial and kill the cat.
More than a quarter also have tooth decay. Times, Sunday Times
The stuff they'd found was called U 235 but they could only get traces and it decayed almost instantly. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
One is the force of entropy and decay, the other is the force careful of creativity and evolution.
The mansion had an atmosphere of genteel elegance and decay.
Sharp, clever and prickly, Gwendolen reads the days away, oblivious to dirt and decay.
The uranium eventually decays to radium and, eventually to polonium - 210, a substance that, when inhaled, can endanger tissue health and damage the immune system.
The ancient Egyptians knew ways to preserve dead bodies from decay.
Most beta decays involve the emission of electrons from the nucleus as a neutron decays into an electron and a proton.
Dental caries occur when bacteria destroy the enamel surface of the tooth and cause decay.
But if talent, of any sort, is not nurtured within the organization, any organization, we will see ossification and decay.
He also had his bottom front teeth ‘slenderized’ so that they wouldn't touch, promoting more decay.’

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