How To Use Putrefy In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It radiated a smell of freshness in putrefying ether.
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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.
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‘It means that liquid has sat in your ears long enough to putrefy,’ I explained.
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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
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The putrefying smell carried through the broken compressed-air pipe to the trapped miners and, eventually, to the rescue workers.
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However, during the hot Polish summers, the bodies started to putrefy.
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These were black and glistening with the rain and from them came an odor, acrid and penetrating, of decaying fish in ill-emptied gurry-butts and of putrefying livers oozing out a black oil in open casks.
Sweetapple Cove
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River water begins to putrefy when lack of oxygen promotes the growth of anaerobic bacteria, which produce the tell-tale smell of stale water.
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Another substance which has been found to have an injurious action is ferrous sulphate or "copperas," a substance which is apt to be present in badly drained soils, or soils in which there is much actively putrefying organic matter.
Manures and the principles of manuring
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And the minute that the magnificent, multifaceted Crenshaw arrives to putrefy all around him, the scene is set for classic comedy.
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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
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If these sugars cannot be broken down, they will sit in the large intestine and putrefy, leading to a bloated feeling and gas.
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Sanguinem inficiunt, saith Villanovanus, they infect the blood, and putrefy it, Magninus holds, and must not therefore be taken via cibi, aut quantitate magna, not to make a meal of, or in any great quantity.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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It had that taste of something vile that had been slowly putrefying in the hot weather.
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This protracted process resulted in a backlog of bodies that were often putrefying by the time they were cremated.
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Morphine, for example, is prepared by allowing opium to putrefy; and the process for preparing leucin, a substance which contains 10.72 of nitrogen, is to bring cheese into putrefaction.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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Ganges water does not putrefy, even after long periods of storage.
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When an extremity has been invaded by bacteria and the blood supply is choked off, the limb begins to putrefy.
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The body starts to putrefy within a minute or two of death, and bubbles of gas come up through the mouth.
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The taste was so putrefying that I felt as if I were about to double over.
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The bodies were left as a warning, to putrefy dangling in public.
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Anything organic is going to putrefy or ferment very, very rapidly.
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The smell of the putrefying corpses which lay around the walls and in the doura crop, together with the unhealthy climate and the filth of the town, was a fertile source of disease.
The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
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Mr. Ellis observed by his microscope near the surface of all putrefying vegetable or animal matter, which is the mucor or mouldiness; the vegetation of which was amazingly quick so as to be almost seen, and soon became so large as to be visible to the naked eye.
Note I
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We muft beg leave to abridge confix derably 'his pompous account of a putrefying animal fubftince* which is diffufed through four pages.
The Monthly Review