decayed

How To Use decayed In A Sentence

• The mangroves' waterlogged roots decayed into peat, and the peat's acidity and lack of oxygen kept the wood from rotting.
• Decayed heartwood may sufficiently weaken trees enough to increase ice and wind mortality.
• 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
• 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 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
• A few suburbs have flourished, while the inner city has decayed and once relatively stable working class communities have deteriorated.
• Russian sport depends on the old Soviet structures that once produced such success but have decayed. Times, Sunday Times
• The tree was badly decayed and in 1814 it blew down.
• Some of her teeth were very badly decayed.