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.
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
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter, formed over hundreds of thousands of years. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Soviet Communism had discouraged travel; the old comfortably flea-ridden hans had decayed. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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
The sea cucumber feeds on small plants and decayed debris that settles into seafloor sand and mud.
In Orthodox Europe, mass religion seems to have decayed less.
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
It was rotten and decayed and completely disintegrated on impact.
The orbit of a space satellite decayed.
The stuff they'd found was called U 235 but they could only get traces and it decayed almost instantly. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Fork the undecayed layer back into the heap, to be a base for this year's composting. Times, Sunday Times
Pollution has decayed the surface of the stonework on the front of the cathedral.
These unfortunate sisters, who were rather malodorously called decayed gentlewomen, became eager and petted pupils of a new and popular organization called the South The Development of Embroidery in America
The only furniture, excepting a washing-tub and a wooden press, called in Scotland an ambry, sorely decayed, was a large wooden bed, planked, as is usual, all around, and opening by a sliding panel. Waverley
We are also paying attention to the Henley Regatta Course; and are providing a new Island in place of this eyesore with its decayed cribwork (indicating near Hanlan's Point) to protect the new watercourse so that there will no longer be any delays on account of eastern winds. Some Aspects of Commercial Value to the City of Toronto of the Proposed Harbour Improvements
Dropping aft to main deck level, the walls of the deckhouse are decayed, the inside filled with debris.
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter, formed over hundreds of thousands of years. Times, Sunday Times
Lord Wellington is, for you, only a decayed old gentleman now: I rather think some of you have called him a 'dotard' - you have taunted him with his age, and the loss of his physical vigour. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
We sat in a circle, surrounded by decayed fortress walls.
Growing on decayed tree stumps I frequently found a saprophyte Ranching, Sport and Travel
It holds a wonderful fleet of decayed boats, most of which look like experiments abandoned halfway.
Billy has been left with only eight back teeth and his two front incisors, which dentists say are so badly decayed they will fall out in months.
No natural reactors exist today, as the relative density of fissile uranium has now decayed below that needed for a sustainable reaction.
A steel plate now covers the decayed drainage system.
I was quite surprised to find, instead of the old decayed building, a little house almost entirely new.
Her surfaces have the peeling roughness of a decayed fresco; her urgent brushstrokes resemble callused fingers.
A more recent one has been told me of a betheral of a royal burgh much decayed from former importance, and governed by a feeble municipality of old men, who continued in office, and in fact constituted rather the shadow than the substance of a corporation. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
The chaffery wheele in the west side, old and decayed, 3lb to repaire it. Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean
Dentists are routinely extracting entire sets of severely decayed teeth from toddlers under general anaesthetic.
Candide followed the old woman, though without taking courage, to a decayed house, where she gave him a pot of pomatum to anoint his sores, showed him a very neat bed, with a suit of clothes hanging by it; and set victuals and drink before him. Candide
To see these now, even in decayed grandeur, is a romantic sight.
The grubs feed mainly on decayed vegetation at first.
Some were from two hundred years previous to this day, and it was a small wonder that they had not simply decayed and disintegrated into nothingness.
The shrouds used to cover the faces of the dead were often decayed by bacteria in the mouth, revealing the corpse's teeth, and vampires became known as shroud-eaters. The Financial Express
Now, with reduced capabilities and decayed leadership, they've turned to attacking soft targets.
The observer cannot know whether or not an atom of the substance has decayed, and consequently, cannot know whether the vial has been broken, the hydrocyanic acid released, and the cat killed. The Sopranos Finale Was a Huge Pile of | Best Week Ever
The predictable result was that the buildings decayed and only the crescent and two small wings have survived. Times, Sunday Times
Traditionally, the river and its distributaries were able to compensate for subsidence with fresh sediment spread in floods and decayed vegetation that turned into soil. Archive 2010-08-01
The ground was covered with decayed gumnuts.
Only the decayed part of the tooth is removed for this type of filling.
The stairs were not of stone, built in with the original mass of the tower, as in English castles, but of now decayed wood, which shook beneath us, and grew more and more crazy as we ascended. Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
The cauldron had probably contained some perishable material such as grain, which had decayed and been replaced by sand from the grave fill, and the lamb chops and the bronze bowl had originally been in some kind of haversack or kit bag, along with some other perishable food perhaps bread or fruit? Archive 2008-07-01
The real origin appears to be this: it was a part of the religious belief of the Egyptians that, as a reward of a well-spent and virtuous life, their bodies after death should exist and remain undecayed forever in their tombs, for we find in the "Book of the Dead" the following inscription placed over the spirits who have found favor in the eyes of the Great God: "The bodies which they have forsaken shall _sleep forever_ in their sepulchres, while they rejoice in the presence of God most high. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
The dampness of the climate decayed the books and clothes.
Billy has been left with only eight back teeth and his two front incisors, which dentists say are so badly decayed they will fall out in months.
Apparently the technique was to encase the body in gypsum so that when it decayed it left a perfect cast of the corpse behind. Roman ghost stories
The two oldest individuals at Caffey Hill both contained decayed heartwood, so stand maximum ages exceeded these values.
When crown tissue is infected and becomes decayed, the entire plant may wilt and die.
I loved to hold its face close to mine in the dark and watch the scintillations produced every time a radium nucleus decayed.
Moreover, the fuci that are found in the northern extremity of the Florida stream are generally decayed, while those which are seen in the southern extremity appear quite fresh -- this difference would not exist if they emanated from the Gulf. A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
The upper echelons of American society are hopelessly corrupted and morally decayed.
Dough figurine made of colored dough remains colorfast and intact without getting decayed for decades.
It is evidently a socially acceptable word that the OED defines as “excrementitious and decayed matter employed to fertilize the soil; manure.” No Uncertain Terms
Whoever enquires, as I have frequently done, from those who have asked me an alms; what was their former course of life, will find them to have been servants in good families, broken tradesmen, labourers, cottagers, and what they call decayed house-keepers; but (to use their own cant) reduced by losses and crosses, by which nothing can be understood but idleness and vice. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
Until the rocks crystallized, uranium atoms could move freely through the molten magma from which they formed, and decayed uranium could be replenished.
The pavement is already strewed with decayed cabbage-leaves, broken hay-bands, and all the indescribable litter of a vegetable market; men are shouting, carts backing, horses neighing, boys fighting, basket - women talking, piemen expatiating on the excellence of their pastry, and donkeys braying. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
It shares the grasp the spongy moss may take on the slippery surface, or when the root, thin as whipcord, of a certain fig-tree has crept across the face of the grey rock forming a ridge or barricade against which decayed vegetation accumulates, there the BAEA flourishes, displaying an indeterminate line of mauve flowers above oval, crimpled leaves. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
At a market, tottery old men and women were searching in the garbage thrown in the mud for rotten potatoes, beans, and vegetables, while little children clustered like flies around a festering mass of fruit, thrusting their arms to the shoulders into the liquid corruption, and drawing forth morsels but partially decayed, which they devoured on the spot. THE DESCENT
In Tokaj-Hegyalja the soils are volcanic with a topsoil of decayed lava.
By the 1850s the tradition had declined, so that Baudelaire was seeking to give new life to a decayed literary genre.
The fine sand and silt size fraction comprised decayed plant material, pollen, occasional chitin fragments, clay aggregates, diatoms and fine silicates.
News of forthcoming private A&E departments demonstrate age-old forces of supply and demand are preparing to work their magic on Britain's flagging and decayed health service.
However, taxes fell, the City boomed, the "loadsamoney" culture took hold ... and nobody much cared if pride in local service and the urban infrastructure gradually decayed. Planète Béranger v3
These unfortunate sisters, who were rather malodorously called decayed gentlewomen, became eager and petted pupils of a new and popular organization called the South The Development of Embroidery in America
With plans and accompanying text, he tries to interest the visitor as a tourist for his decayed city.
When crown tissue is infected and becomes decayed, the entire plant may wilt and die.
Finally it was found that the foundations were decayed, having been sapped by the constant flooding and it was decided to demolish the church and build a new one.
After Ellena had quitted this pastoral camp, no vestige of a human residence appeared for several leagues, except here and there the towers of a decayed fortress, perched upon the lofty acclivities she was approaching, and half concealed in the woods. The Italian
Take off the top, undecayed layer and spread the rotten stuff around shrubs and climbers. Times, Sunday Times
Nature decayed around me, and the sun became heatless; rain and snow poured around me; mighty rivers were frozen; the surface of the earth was hard and chill, and bare, and I found no shelter. Chapter 16
The morning air filled with the stenorous rasps of half decayed lungs.
Pollution has decayed the surface of the stonework on the front of the cathedral.
Completely decayed roots of plants from the area were dissected to check for the red core fungus.
Even its popular arts, once the wonder and delight of the world, have decayed; there was a time, within the memory of some of us, when American popular music was full of exaltation and pain and wit, and appealed to grown-ups.
Unlike U.S. cities, which have decayed from the center outward, Johannesburg is ringed by its destitute areas-a condition the South African economist Richard Tomlinson likens to a "too-tight belt around a very fat stomach. The Struggle to Govern Johannesburg
Soil is a composition of weather-beaten rock, minerals, decayed plant materials, and other organic ingredients.
Him that existed before all ages, hast thou as a babe brought forth and hast rejuvenated our hearts which were decayed through many sins; accept also the renewal of our hymnology which is being offered unto Thy festival, O all-holy Theotokos. The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
Many "parlors" never expect to see the same person twice, because they do not make him comfortable or gain his confidence; they put a filling in on top of decayed matter or even diseased pulp; put in plates and bridges that do not fit; charge more than the examination at first leads one to expect; refuse to correct mistakes; deny having ever seen the patient before. Civics and Health
In Orthodox Europe, mass religion seems to have decayed less.
The council said the fungi had decayed the roots.
He was inspired by the idea of decayed elegance but also wanted to reflect how Miss Haversham could have looked as a young girl. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter, formed over hundreds of thousands of years. Times, Sunday Times
We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own, we are but a compost heap made up of the decayed heredities, moral and physical.17 Mark Twain
An unshowy mastery of empathetic guitar-lines lends depth and variety to the rawness: shattering echoes, sinister decayed sputterings, plaintive refrains.
Sure marriage, said I, is not sufficiently encouraged, or we should never behold such crowds of battered beaux and decayed coquets still attempting to drive a trade.
This leads to a decayed and degraded society where crime and immorality becomes widespread and injustice becomes the norm. Times, Sunday Times
They are so named because they originate from the decayed and fossilized remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.
My health was not yet re-established; I decayed visibly, was pale as death, and reduced to an absolute skeleton; the beating of my arteries was extreme, my palpitations were frequent: I was sensible of a continual oppression, and my weakness became at length so great, that I could scarcely move or step without danger of suffocation, stoop without vertigoes, or lift even the smallest weight, which reduced me to the most tormenting inaction for a man so naturally stirring as myself. The Confessions of J J Rousseau
Vancouver's derelict and decayed industrial edifices have often served as a source of inspiration for local artists.
Palmer grounds further mistrust in an awareness of the late hour of language, in anxiety regarding its itinerant languor and lapse, its reflecting gaze having decayed.
I felt decayed, drear, pounded down like a gel-cup, compressed yet empty.
A few drops of Apis 3, shaken with twelve tablespoonfuls of water, a tablespoonful of this solution every three hours, generally relieves the pain in a short period, promotes suppuration, effects the discharge of the decayed cellular tissue, and a speedy cure of the furuncle. Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
My reading has steadily decayed from the start of the year (which I think is mostly due to travel more than anything else): Breakfast in Bed
The public meeting has decayed, and what voters see on TV is constructed around artifice and falsehood.
Without the instability of the declining 18th century, as the old European order decayed, we would not have gained the French assistance decisive to our struggle for independence.
The settlement is circumvallated by a stake-fence, so decayed that one may gain ingress at a dozen places.
That girl, whom I so loved, whom I treated as my child, who was to me an image of what they call womanly purity, throws herself away upon my most detested enemy, a loathsome corpse, whose body, soul, and spirit had already decayed. Debts of Honor
If the fragments and remaynder of so sacred an antiquitie, and if the greet and dust of such a decayed monument, can breed a stupifaction in the admiration thereof, and cause so great delyght to behould the same, what would it haue done in chiefest pride. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Your dentist (or a specialist called an endodontist) takes out the decayed pulp, fills the space with a paste, and covers the tooth with a crown to protect and seal it.
De Irwyn, the secretary and armorbearer of Robert Bruce; but at the time of the birth of William Irving its fortunes had gradually decayed, and the lad sought his livelihood, according to the habit of the adventurous Orkney Islanders, on the sea. Washington Irving
I am neither a felonious drysalter returned from exile, an hospital stump-turner, a decayed staymaker, a bankrupt printer, or insolvent debtor, released by act of parliament. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
On the port side, fish swim in and out where hull plating has decayed, leaving ragged holes blocked to any but the skinniest of divers by upright hull ribs.
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
Decayed food that is not removed from the cellar will affect the conditions for keeping other foods.
These bacteria consume the ooze's organic carbon, which comes primarily from the decayed remains of marine organisms.
Certain crystals called zircons, obtained from drilling into very deep granites, contain uranium which has partly decayed into lead.
Our press does not reverence kings, it does not reverence so called nobilities, it does not reverence established ecclesiastical slaveries, it does not reverence laws which rob a younger son to fatten an elder one, it does not reverence any fraud or sham or infamy, howsoever old or rotten or holy, which sets one citizen above his neighbor by accident of birth: it does not reverence any law or custom, howsoever old or decayed or sacred, which shuts against the best man in the land the best place in the land and the divine right to prove property and go up and occupy it. The American Claimant
It includes work on masts, rigging and decayed timbers. The Sun
Both members of the pair excavate a hole in a decayed tree, typically a cottonwood or Ponderosa pine.
Turkish garrison attacked, but was heavily defeated at Valtetzi by the tactical skill of Theodore Kolokotrónis the 'klepht', who had become experienced in guerrilla warfare through his alternate professions of brigand and gendarme -- a career that had increased its possibilities as the Ottoman system decayed. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
In the corner of his parents 'bedroom he saw decayed seagull carcasses, gnats and maggots on lusterless eyes, globs of sea jelly, tangles of seaweed. Wintering at Montauk
As regards his literary craftsmanship, Lowell charges him only with having revived the age of _concetti_ while he fancied himself going back to a preclassical nature, basing the charge on such a far-fetched comparison as that in which Thoreau declares his preference for "the dry wit of decayed cranberry-vines and the fresh Attic salt of the moss-beds" over the wit of the Greek sages as it comes to us in the The Last Harvest
Its decayed trunk lay on the last utilized pavement, and its great, snaglike roots preclude the possibility of its ever having been moved (pl. 2, right). The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito
The roads stopped being sprinkled at sunset, the buildings ceased to receive their annual whitewash, the gardens decayed, and litter and dirt began to pile up unswept on the pavements.
Since the Fearless was sunk in 1985, much of the wooden structure has decayed, leaving only frames and fittings where the wheelhouse and forward deckhouse once stood.
The hindwings are usually so decayed as to be unrecognizable.
The orbit of a space satellite decayed.
Underwater your eyes collapse and your feet touch decayed leaves and soft sand at the lake's bottom, the texture of tenderized flesh, maybe an intestine Summer Is An Itch
On the downside he's noticed that the urban infrastructure has decayed immeasurably in recent years.
He then dismissed me, full of hopes to have our decayed state and reputation rectified, making me a promise of an effectual firmaun for our trade and secure residence at Surat. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
To the S.W. there is a group of somewhat decayed Shan Pagodas, and a Poonghie house, around which are planted mango trees and a beautiful arboreous Bauhinia, Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
New Shoreham, now sadly decayed, has barely 100 inhabitants.
This condition was the result of neglected treatment of decayed teeth.] _The treatment_ consists in the prompt removal of the tooth. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
Considering the fact that she was too decayed to put to sea, had no guns aboard, no crew, and was, in fact, laid up, the feat of the _Tenedos_ was not very wonderful; a row-boat could have "blockaded" her quite as well. The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans
She needed time and political backing to implement her policies to reshape the country's decayed economy.
Mazarin, like a very unskilful physician, did not observe that the vital organs were decayed, nor had he the skill to support them by the chemical preparations of his predecessor; his only remedy was to let blood, which he drew so plentifully that the patient fell into a lethargy, and our medicaster was yet so stupid as to mistake this lethargy for a real state of health. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
Recently my toe desquamate, scratchy, toenail decayed a bit, how to return a responsibility?
By using its pharynx, cannibalic planarian feeds on the decayed animals, eat worms (especially earthworms), snails, and other small animals. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
The public meeting has decayed, and what voters see on TV is constructed around artifice and falsehood.
This was a very slow business, and _too slow_ to suit me, yet I continued to run it about three months, when by repeated losses on decayed fruit, and the too frequent visits of relatives and friends, we found the business in an unhealthy condition and lost no time in looking up a buyer, which we were fortunate in finding and successful in getting a good price from. Twenty Years of Hus'ling
He could behold beneath his eye, the lower part of the decayed village, as its ruins peeped from the umbrageous shelter with which they were shrouded. Saint Ronan's Well
Several hundred million years ago, conditions of burial were such that organisms decayed to form products consisting almost entirely of carbon and hydrocarbons.
When a tooth is decayed, the dentist usually repairs it by drilling out the rotten portion, and filling the gap.
That the said customary tenants, and every of them, may cut down any old trees, called decayed pollard trees, standing or growing in or upon his customary tenement, and sell and dispose of the same, at his and their will and pleasure. John Keble's Parishes
By the term muck, some farmers understand leaf-mold (decayed leaves), especially that which collects in low and wet places. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel
John Etherington, a retired reader of ecology at the University of Wales in Cardiff and specialist in environmental science, argued that highly decayed peat can "liquefy" through vibration. RoguePundit
Russian sport depends on the old Soviet structures that once produced such success but have decayed. Times, Sunday Times
LD decayed relatively slowly but steadily within genes.
But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed. The Lost World
Astragals, writhing and hanging heere and there, making the capitall thrise so big as the bottom thereof of the columne, wherevpon was placed the Epistile or streight beame, the greatest part decayed, and many columnes widowed and depriued of their Capitels, buryed in ruine both Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
The droppings of these millions of birds and animals and the accumulating bodies of the dead have decayed and made a kind of grayish powder. Birdseye Views of Far Lands
Now, the slave-built massive concrete bastions have softened and decayed under the influence of time, weather and vegetation.
He tried hard not to look like a fox, and gazed nonchalantly up to where brief rays of sunlight filtered through the branches of nearby oak trees and onto the decayed husks of dead bluebells.
Some of the films turned out to be unwatchable because the film had decayed or curdled, but most were perfect.
He took a decayed farmyard, and by judicious restoration, demolition, and new building converted it into a house.
The stuff they'd found was called U 235 but they could only get traces and it decayed almost instantly. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The bodies buried in the fine ash slowly decayed.
The fungi typically fruits from terrestrial woody debris or from the tops of very well decayed logs.
From that point, the property has remained uninhabited, and has slowly decayed.
Literary posterity will probably regard it as an interesting but failed experiment, taking Updike away from his usual themes and mileu, although not completely: its exploration of religious belief is consistent with much of his previous fiction, and the town of New Prospect, New Jersey could easily enough be a depiction of Brewer, Pennsylvania in its own decayed postindustrial latter days. Updike, John
Why that has decayed away may in part be that people have become doubtful that colleges are now the real sources of that which I call wisdom, whether they are anything more -- anything much more -- than a cultivating of man in the specific arts. On the Choice of Books
But history shows that even most prosperous civilisations have decayed and disintegrated if it did not have a nationalistic ideology.
Litter in years gone by was really non existent and not the problem it is today, as packaging was simple and brown paper bags being organic quickly decayed.
I'm leaving the Labour party because its internal culture has decayed to such an extent that - to borrow a term adored by New Labour - it no longer has the social capital necessary to function in its core marketplace. British Blogs
The town is but a decayed, honky-tonk version of the company town, with everything and everybody in it owned by Mr. Potter, the rapacious banker (and the town itself is, of course, Pottersville).
They have more decayed teeth being filled, more left unfilled, and fewer extractions.
Every time that France seemed to be on the verge of the precipice, that country, which some people called a decayed country, showed herself united; she showed that union in the minds and in the hearts which is the first condition of strength. France and Her Allies
Then [he says] comes Sir Walter Scott with his enchantments, and by his single might checks this wave of progress and even turns it back; sets the world in love with dreams and phantoms; with decayed and swinish forms of religion; with decayed and degraded systems of government; with the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society. My beloved South,
The fort was situated on a rotten hill, with a few decayed houses on it.
We might show how reason is here overpowered and dethroned; how the remonstrances of virtue, already decayed and emaciated, become vain and futile; how man, bent upon sensual gratification, rushes on, brutifies himself, inflames his passions but the more, An Address to the People of North Carolina, on the Evils of Slavery. By The Friends of Liberty and Equality
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
And the immersive nastiness of their aesthetic — decayed bathrooms, foul workshops, seeping industrial spaces, blades blotched with rust — distilled the slasher-flick elixir: atmosphere. Don’t Fear the Reaper
Cargrim was not ill pleased at this obstinacy, as it gave him an opportunity of entering into conversation with the so-called decayed clergyman, who was as unlike a parson as a rabbit is like a terrier. The Bishop's Secret
Governmental authority decayed in Poland and Hungary during the early months of 1989.
We found that fluorescence decayed with an averaged time constant of 142.8 s due to photobleaching.
The first glimpse at 112 lasted for only a third of a millisecond, until it decayed first into element 110 (darmstaditium) and then into four different short-lived elements until researchers lost its trail at element 110 (fermium). Undefined
There is a decayed chimney where I have watched white-faced herons nest and breed.
a decayed foundation
The pavement is already strewed with decayed cabbage – leaves, broken hay – bands, and all the indescribable litter of a vegetable market; men are shouting, carts backing, horses neighing, boys fighting, basket – women talking, piemen expatiating on the excellence of their pastry, and donkeys braying. Sketches by Boz
The experience of staying in this little house, partially decayed and partially over-designed, was a totally hybrid experience. Stephen Burks
They produced neptunium, which decayed by beta emission, shunting the element one place further along the Periodic Table.
Decayed baby teeth can pass bacteria to permanent teeth.
But whether this unemotional ideal be the genuine tradition of the gentleman, or only one of the inventions of the modern gentleman (who may be called the decayed gentleman), it certainly has something to do with the unemotional quality in these society novels. Heretics
He sought shelter from the sudden cold in a decayed hole at the edge of the mountains.
It was a classical insurgency situation, in which "decayed tapsters and serving men" faced men who "knew what they fought for and loved what they knew".
The bodies buried in the fine ash slowly decayed.
[An account of these tubulous spectacles ( "An easy help for decayed sight") is given in "The Philosophical Transactions," No. 37, pp. 727,731 (Hutton's Abridgment, vol. i., p. 266). Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
The bodies buried in the fine ash slowly decayed.
They should be grown in tolerably rich soil, but which has been enriched with decayed leaves rather than animal manure; as, when they are manured with dung, they are very apt to produce what are called water shoots or gourmands, that is, strong vigorous shoots without any blossom buds. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
According to the Twitter trend tracking site Twist (image above), use of the term peaked on Sunday morning and has since decayed. Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0
The incentive is to leave other decayed teeth. Times, Sunday Times
He was inspired by the idea of decayed elegance but also wanted to reflect how Miss Havisham could have looked as a young girl. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

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