putrefy

How To Use putrefy In A Sentence

• It moves actively through the stagnant water in its passage to the surface, aerifying it, and at the same time doing faithfully its work as scavenger by consuming vegetable germs and putrefying matter. Four Months in a Sneak-Box
• At that point, the other cells begin to putrefy and become what's called the nutritive soup - out of which the imaginal cells create the absolute unpredictable miracle of the butterfly. Writing on Air
• The founder of protozoology was him - self firmly opposed to the notion that his “animalcules” could have arisen from the putrefying matter that made up their usual environment. SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
• The ship's holds were all open and I caught the smell of the five men beginning to putrefy from the quay. A DARKENING STAIN
• It radiated a smell of freshness in putrefying ether.
• She felt an uneasy qualm at the thought of her garden-proud neighbour, who was already ill-disposed towards the foxes, discovering caches of putrefying cheese among her spring flowers.
• ‘It means that liquid has sat in your ears long enough to putrefy,’ I explained.
• The ship's holds were all open and I caught the smell of the five men beginning to putrefy from the quay. A DARKENING STAIN
• The putrefying smell carried through the broken compressed-air pipe to the trapped miners and, eventually, to the rescue workers.
• However, during the hot Polish summers, the bodies started to putrefy.