How To Use Rotting In A Sentence
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The son of a diplomat, he has spent much of his life globe-trotting.
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No other athlete in Britain has undergone such an exhaustive, globetrotting search for success.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mangroves' waterlogged roots decayed into peat, and the peat's acidity and lack of oxygen kept the wood from rotting.
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First we'd have a trotting race, then another one going a fair bit faster.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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The noonday sun beat down fiercely; dusty air carried the stink of rotting garlic after a prolonged dry spell.
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The arrival of warm weather raises the specter of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage.
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Around him graves crept up the hillside in a mishmash of stone headstones and rotting wooden crosses.
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A globe-trotting, business-building commerce secretary, he operated on the theory that a good defense is a good offense.
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This was true, but also significant, because by trotting out the figure of 20%, he created an expectation and sound byte that will come back to haunt him and the Chinese currency at the end of the summer if unattained.
Diane Francis: Chinese Cheating
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All that trotting off like dazed sheep to get some sumac/nduja/ harissa and extra avocados just in case.
Times, Sunday Times
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I used to love trotting out of a morning to potter about the wilderness in my gown and pyjamas, all unshaved and generally unkempt.
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A very smart bunch who appeared to take great delight in posing and trotting about the place.
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For here was a trailing line of jog-trotting dusky shapes, some crouching on dwarf ponies half their size, some trailing lances, lodge-poles, rifles, women and children after them, all moving with a monotonous rhythmic motion as marked as the military precision of the other cavalcade, and always on a parallel line with it.
Tales of Trail and Town
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When Rhodry came trotting in, they all slewed round and looked at him.
A TIME OF WAR
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He's a completely loathsome and utterly shallow creep and I look forward to a swift garotting moment in the very near future.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The child was finally found huddled inside a flat with her mother, surrounded by bin bags full of rotting food.
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When I realized I could track the GPS in his cellphone, I swung by earlier. Gave him a proper burial. It's better than rotting in some skank's basement.
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As a globe-trotting performer, Mu oz manages to pull his stunts in shows some 450 times a year.
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While this lengthy retrieval process was being effected, the batsmen were trotting up and down at their leisure to compile the 47 runs necessary for victory.
Great Sporting Failures
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Here, despite our fear of pursuit, despite the awful fetor of the rotting bodies, we had to pause to search through the knights ' gear.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
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Yes indeed I enjoyed horses vicariously and occasionally even pretended to be Jill and set up a few jumps in the garden and did a bit of giddy-up neddy trotting around my own gymkhana.
Such stuff as dreams are made on...
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I can feel the stuff I don't say rotting inside me like mildewy spuds in a sack," he says.
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Garden waste is rotting outside homes because it hasn't been collected for a month.
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Amy peered round at the vast landscape surrounding her and held her fingers to her nose to block the awful stench of rotting corpses.
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I followed her to a broken-down shed with a rotting rowing boat outside.
MAN AND WIFE
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I looked up, and saw a dog trotting along the sidewalk toward me.
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The roof is also leaking badly, window frames and guttering are rotting and the interior is in urgent need of redecoration.
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HealthDay News -- Bad breath -- medically called halitosis -- is frequently caused by rotting food particles that collect between the teeth, on the tongue and near the gumline.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Start trotting out the same lines, the same solutions and, rather than tapping into a source of riches, you're carrying ballast about with you and you'll soon be buried beneath it.
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Dear heaven, Laura thought, trotting after him with her string bag and her blanket.
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She explained that some place had become a dumping area for rotting vegetables that vendors were unable to sale.
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Guards' keys jangled as you passed the idle silence and time of your life rotting away.
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In a corner, young Curry Shepherd, his blazer looking slightly the worse for wear, sat meditating on the relative merits of death by garotting or a slow boiling in oil, both of which he contemplated with BMW in mind, the DCSS having called him from a warm bed, next to a warm and loving woman at the dawn's early light.
Final Resting Place of The Pen
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The rotting process releases acids which dissolve metals into liquids which leach out of waste dumps and can poison local rivers.
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In the pure science section is the data surrounding the two chemicals ethyl mercaptan and butyl sereno-mercaptan which smell of a combination of rotting cabbage, garlic, onions, burned toast and sewers.
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Snyder is like wasted potential rotting on the bench.
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A bacteriostat is a substance that inhibits the growth of bacteria in inanimate environments, preventing, say, rotting or odor of textiles or deterioration of paint.
HOME COMFORTS
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It raised its rotting hands, mentally measuring Ben to see what size clothes he was best suited for.
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I sense above the rotting bodies of bogong moths in Canberra an especial stench around the events of last Thursday.
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The back wheel sounds like a baby's rattle and the mechs have been slowly rotting for a while now.
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The son of a diplomat, he has spent much of his life globe-trotting.
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With another Election Day approaching, conservatives are again trotting out conspiracy theories about elections stolen through voter fraud.
The voter fraud racket is back!
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MR. SHERMAN: Yes, the fertilizer was disced in, and he tried to disc under that bluegrass sod and get that rotting under there.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950
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St. Mark's repair estimate replacing water-laden timbers and rotting boards on the facing, repairing the bell's carriage, and having the nerve and skill to do it all from four stories up on a scaffold came from veteran steeplejack Michael Hardin of Litchfield, Ohio.
Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker
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We clambered over the stile and onto a well-worn path fringed by dry rotting undergrowth.
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Was it possibly when your ass was rotting in jail and I broke it out?
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Was it possibly when your ass was rotting in jail and I broke it out?
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Noon found Tom far out on the National Road, creaking along over the yellow dust in a light wagon, between bordering forests that smelt spicily of wet underbrush and May-apples; and, here and there, when they would emerge from the woods to cleared fields, liberally outlined by long snake-fences of black walnut, the steady, jog-trotting old horse lifted his head and looked interested in the world, but Tom never did either.
The Two Vanrevels
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I capered clumsily into the mob and drew a squad of ghosts trotting with a fife band.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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The stench currently assailing your nostrils is a fish rotting from the head down.
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People who live on an island are bound to be wary of outsiders, since foreigners who come from overseas seem somehow more outlandish than someone simply trotting over a land boundary.
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Once, after they were tacked up, and out in the ring, trotting and cantering around, Lysander came up to watch them.
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Soon the cave was full of rotting bodies waiting to be buried.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Millions of the insects - far more aggressive than the common wasp - are getting drunk on rotting fruit.
The Sun
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The counterrevolution is a rotting worm (applause).
CASTRO RADIO AND TV INTERVIEW
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Rotting fish and taphonomy: what fossilizes? was the previous entry in this blog.
Sarracenia purpurea - The Panda's Thumb
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We are being asked once again, to "repackage" Nigeria's rotting corpse as if this would prevent its smell from choking the world.
Vanguard News
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The ship is full of rotting food and experts say that it could release a foul smell.
Times, Sunday Times
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The effervescent and downright bubbly host has evolved from just another flirtatious cable TV personality into a globe-trotting media mogul.
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Leave your barrel in the street next to the supermarket trolley, the rotting sofa and the binbag full of used hypodermics.
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The smell of stagnant, rotting waters hung so thickly that the air was nearly unbreathable.
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Sometimes these globe-trotting preseason tours are about winning hearts and minds.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was the smell, the smell of his own dug-out, a vile odour of putrefaction, of rotting bodies, of blood, of stale human sweat.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Soon after, outfitted in chaps and riding gloves supplied by the concierge, I was trotting through fields of alfalfa atop a fat, spotted mare.
High Plains Drifting
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Thousands of tonnes of rotting rubbish form mountains on the streets in sweltering heat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Black spindle-legs curled up to meet red-gimleted black faces, donkeys headless and legless, or sieves of shrapnel; camels with necks writhed back on to their humps, rotting already in pools of blood and bile-yellow water, heads without faces, and faces without anything below, cobwebbed arms and legs, and black skins grilled to crackling on smouldering palm-leaf -- don't look at it.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War
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Described as ‘feisty’ and partial to a feast of rotting vegetables, baby Great Land Crabs are often tan in colour, turning a deep shade of violet as they mature.
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Joncas' photographs of rotting and leftover refuse are a funny twist on the still-life genre.
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He could smell the familiar odour of rotting foliage in his nostrils.
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She came trotting down the steps from the library.
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Although dutifully gutted and stripped of their fur-bearing skin in the field by the trappers, the remaining bits of rotting flesh and grizzle began to give off a stink as the pelts thawed in boxes on the warehouse floor.
A DAY AT THE FUR AUCTION • by Stephen Taylor
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Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the rotting carcass of the deer.
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Mention ballroom dancing and most people think of smiling couples dressed in designer suits and glitzy dresses waltzing, quickstepping and foxtrotting across the hardwood.
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I used to love trotting out of a morning to potter about the wilderness in my gown and pyjamas, all unshaved and generally unkempt.
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Then there's the constant globetrotting in his role as a high-profile businessman.
Times, Sunday Times
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Janet managed very well, with Martin trotting at her heels to tell her where things could be found.
The Windy Hill
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Such a leper is a lonely outcast, living in constant fear of discovery and slowly and surely rotting away.
Chapter 7
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We might as well bring back the stocks and throw rotting fruit and veg at them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once state-of-the-art post-war buildings were crumbling away, with leaky roofs and rotting window frames.
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They walked their horses out of the barn, and then began trotting to the main road where they urged their horses into a canter.
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She had spent the part of it which was most important to her on the move, trotting round beside her father, who was a piano tuner.
HUMAN VOICES
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A village'sentire beach and harbor can be fouled by a single rotting whale.
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But you could also elect to have your dead body help a student mortician learn his trade or spend a few months rotting away under the watchful eye of forensic scientists.
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The United defence thronged into the middle for some reason, allowed Wright to send a ball back to Mitchell who was by this time trotting, unaccompanied, into the box.
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Pragmatists try to coalesce the quest for truth and the quest for justification by trotting out what Williams labels ‘the indistinguishability argument’.
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Their videos evoked a glamorous existence, globetrotting around tropical locations; they were sharply dressed; they went out with supermodels; their lead singer had nearly drowned in a yacht race.
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‘That's better,’ he said trotting off on his toddler legs to catch up with his mother who was holding her sides to keep from laughing.
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The fact that Naik still gives it primacy is appropriate, since we have persisted in dragging this rotting carcass of a social structure with us into the new century.
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Could criminals spy on your snacking secrets or lift the lid on your rotting veg?
Times, Sunday Times
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The gribble is found in the water chewing on rotting logs, boats, and docks, and to this point it has been considered an annoying pest.
Tiny Gribble May Hold Key To Efficient Biofuel Conversion | Inhabitat
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Every single election everyone seems to have the epiphany that the panhandle is still voting as they're trotting out the news that the polls are closed. gyges1
Obama’s Florida Bet - Swampland - TIME.com
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I see the autumn harvests, frozen into black knots in the trees, the berries and fruit, left rotting on the floor and then all mush turned to ice on hard ground.
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Mix grit in with heavy soil and sit the bulbs on a layer of grit to stop them rotting.
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The arrival of warm weather raises the specter of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage.
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Once brought under control by the mahouts, it lumbered across the river - this time to a fusillade of stones and rotting fruit thrown by the now vengeful onlookers.
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When darkness fell, searchlight beams swept over dancing crowds, in serious holiday mood, jitterbugging, foxtrotting, in hats and long coats, to the sounds of a full orchestra in evening dress.
The Festival of Britain, 60 years on
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Harness racing, pacing and trotting, are raced by standard-bred horses as opposed to thoroughbreds, who do the galloping.
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Dyspeptic travel commentators , though , have increasingly fewer reasons to kick around the globe - trotting Japanese.
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I heard the sound of a horse lightly trotting, and I looked to my right to see a horse with a carriage trotting towards me.
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During the ride over to the commissariat, * I see a caniche* on a leash, its owner trotting along, light on her feet.
French Word-A-Day:
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There are four-cent lodging-houses, where there is only straw without any covering; and there are three-cent houses, where there is no straw even, but only bare boards rotting beneath a crustation of dirt and filth, which is never washed off.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Man I loved this stuped toy when i was a kid but damn if it didnt usually turn out bad and you ended up with a room of rotting fruit within a week or two.. ah the good ol days.
Archive 2009-04-12
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But as he sat on his horse, trotting along in that seemingly endless line, he was struck by the sheer futility of war.
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A globe-trotting, business-building commerce secretary, he operated on the theory that a good defense is a good offense.
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While electric cars are being snuffed out, automakers are trotting out hybrid vehicles as the answer for fuel-economy-conscious consumers.
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Could criminals spy on your snacking secrets or lift the lid on your rotting veg?
Times, Sunday Times
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It would have been attractive if every time she spoke I didn't expect her to tell the Prussian to pull up and get in the back with us and bring his garotting tools.
The Striker Portfolio
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Not a great bustle at this hour on a soft, moist, melancholy November day, but always some evidence of human activity, a boy jog-trotting home with a bag on his shoulder and a dog at his heels, a carter making for the town with a load of coppice-wood, an old man leaning on his staff, two sturdy housewives of the Foregate bustling back from the town with their purchases, one of Hugh's officers riding back towards the bridge at a leisurely walk.
The Devil's Novice
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The Camp meeting is the only harness racing event in the county run under the Irish trotting and harness racing federation rules.
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White said the optics won't be good for CSC employees who were irked their chief was globe trotting while guards struggled to hammer out a new contract.
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Next was Lia, Lia who sat rotting away in the corners of a prison cell.
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So will I be trotting back down to Woolwich tomorrow to find out more about it?
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You lift a rotting log with one hand and pry out juicy grubs with your other forefinger.
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The globe-trotting history of Titian's masterpiece "Diana and Actaeon," which goes on view Oct. 17 at Atlanta's High Museum of Art, begins with the Roman poet Ovid's tale of a goddess who transforms a man into a deer after he spies her taking a bath.
Diana's Journey From Royal Chambers to Atlanta
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Sneaking up on people and garrotting them from behind is a frustratingly difficult option, and the highest rating is accorded to those who can waltz through an entire level and kill only the primary target at the end.
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It's a dreary beach, too: no real surf and mounds of weed lie rotting and stinking, alive with flies.
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These include the nitrogen-containing molecules called amines, which tend to smell of ammonia, rotting meat and corpses: "very stinky", says Rosenberg.
New Scientist - Online News
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The little inn at Lorette was then kept by a worthy host bearing the above-mentioned name, which was dingily lettered out upon a swinging sign, dingily representing a trotting horse, -- emblem as dear to the slow Canadian as to the fast American mind.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
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A little higher up the creek a crawler tractor lay abandoned and rotting, flaked holes of rust appearing in the metalwork of the cab.
HIGH STAND
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'An emaciated patriarch in a suit of white drill, a solah topi with a green-lined rim on a head trembling with age, joined us after crossing the street in a trotting shuffle, and stood propped with both hands on the handle of an umbrella.
Lord Jim
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Quite a few of the houses are dilapidated, paint flaked off rotting wood, patched up with corrugated iron boards.
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The dinner at the club is usually followed by a night of dancing, and at these galas, he is famous for tangoing and fox-trotting with every man's wife until the band packs up and calls it quits.
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But three weeks later, the rotting carcasses of dead rats had still not been collected, and were producing a nauseating smell.
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The place was littered with barbed wire and rotting lumber and a dozen old boats in various stages of decay.
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Everyone knew that the stairs were rickety, that everything was old and rotting!
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The child was trotting along beside its parents.
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Harold Geneen, the iron-fisted conglomerateur who ran ITT Corp. actually hired globe-trotting engineers to visit the company’s labs with the express mission to snuff out any and all research activity in computers.
Executive Economics
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Wood releases as much carbon dioxide lying on the ground rotting as it does going up in smoke.
Times, Sunday Times
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The smell of stagnant, rotting waters hung so thickly that the air was nearly unbreathable.
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There is a loathsome smell of rotting flesh in the room.
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Unlike other floral species, the Rafflesia exudes a smell of rotting flesh!
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Lady hesitated for a moment, watching the two in front of her with an inquisitive look before trotting off briskly to catch up.
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You never have to wait very long before one side tries to outfox the other by trotting out what their opponents said back before the power switch: ‘Aha!’
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The lore holds that elephants can get drunk by eating the fermented fruit rotting on the ground.
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But I'm digressing, this post is all about the music, not my brain rotting youth.
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In those days there had been much garotting in the streets, and writers in the
Phineas Redux
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He felt as if in just a few short months he had aged ten years - like time-lapse photography of rotting vegetables.
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Frau Braun gestured at the layer of rotting food and filth.
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The whole thing stank of rotting fish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Otherwise, the carcass would be destroyed by the influences of erosion, rotting, and weathering before the process of fossilization could start.
Modern Science in the Bible
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Page 297 alone manages to refer to Alonso in The Tempest as "Alphonso," describe him as duke of Naples, rather than its king, invent for Gonzalo a nonexistent comparison of the courtiers 'garments seemingly new-dyed by salt water to "players' costumes, "and misread Prospero's account of the witch Sycorax (predictably yet another caricature of Queen Elizabeth) arriving on the island" with child "as meaning she already had a small Caliban trotting by her side.
The One and Only
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Maybe in some of those crumbling palm-leaf manuscripts rotting away unsung, unwept, and unhonored, there are other ancient treasures like the astronomical observations from 5,000 years ago.
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Singers Cindy Wilson (wearing a belted mini-dress and whipping her curtain of cornsilk hair like a dervish) and Kate Pierson (old-school burlesque in hot pants, flamingo-pink ruffled blouse and corset) have lost none of their vocal power, even if they both seemed a little exhausted by the idea of trotting out their 1990 hit "Roam.
On the Scene: True Colors tour at NYC's Radio City | EW.com
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When you've been pressed into service as "sergeant-general" of the Malagassy army, or forced to convoy a bog-trotting idiot figged up as Sinbad the Sailor through an enemy army, or dragooned into impersonating a poxed-up Danish prince - why, what's a slave rebellion more or less?
THE NUMBERS
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Now back to its white friend, trotting, bobtailed, across a recess between talon-like projections in the scarp.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am a sucker for rusty stuff - ramshackle windmills, a rotting singletree hanging on that hook where grandpa put it the last time he unhitched the team, plows, skillets, barbed wire.
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Her place was unkempt, smelled of overworn laundry and rotting dill.
Aching Hours
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Fellow walkers always double take when they see him trotting along with the dogs.
The Sun
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Something that smelled like rotting flesh on burned toast was shuffling toward them, fungoid arms extended, eyeballs dangling from the ends of raw, frayed strings.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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He was unshaved, very hairy, and smelled like rotting meat.
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This done, Catchpole is rich for four months at least, as if bastinadoes were his real harvest; for the monk, levite, usurer, or lawyer will reward him roundly; and my gentleman must pay him such swingeing damages that his acres must bleed for it, and he be in danger of miserably rotting within a stone doublet, as if he had struck the king.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The smell is an alluring combination of cat pee, ammonia, rotting dead animal, dirty socks and the smell you could expect about three or four hours after the church bean supper.
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Jade smiled and followed him down the hall, the child trotting at a quick pace to keep up with her long strides.
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Ford, though pushing 60, would return as the globe trotting archaeologist, occultist and Nazi - fighter.
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New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote, "If the word oleaginous didn't exist, someone would have to invent it to describe Rahm Emanuel." called him "arrogant, rash and power hungry" and described how he once "sent a rotting fish to a former coworker with whom he had parted ways.
Undefined
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The incident also offered us a glimpse of the glamorous, sometimes expensive, globe trotting lifestyle of a successful wine merchant.
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You want yor godrotting troat cut from godrotting ear to ear?
Tai-Pan
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He fought an election campaign in the London boroughs by trotting behind huskies across the snows of northern Norway.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the helicopter hovered lower over the canopy of the rainforest the stench of rotting flesh filled the air.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wood was rotting on one side, and no smoke came from the brick chimney.
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These rotting bananas are giving off a bad smell.
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To this end the city directed its scavengers to deliver ‘clean’ garbage free of rotting vegetable matter to the site.
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Now a powerful symbol of the friendship and unity between our two countries lies shunned and rotting in a storage depot.
The Sun
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She has done her fair share of globetrotting.
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He said that Forster, one of our first-class writers, had told him that the most characteristic speech was not reported, and mentioned the heads -- as, the slave-trade being of the same nature as thuggee, garrotting; the tribute
The Personal Life of David Livingstone
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Red Death shot from your feet, fouling the air with its stench of rotting meat and rat feces.
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He'd let it go, it was worthless to him, the companies and bonds and the woman and children, the jog-trotting on fenced roads, the vain pretentions of the country club, the petty grasping at the petticoats -- where they were worn -- of variety.
Cytherea
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A disgusting squelch echoed around the concrete enclosure as a plastic bag split open, revealing beneath the rotting fruit, an identical device.
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Relief workers say there is a high danger of epidemics because many bodies and rotting animal carcasses have not yet been disposed of.
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Sneaking up on people and garrotting them from behind is a frustratingly difficult option, and the highest rating is accorded to those who can waltz through an entire level and kill only the primary target at the end.
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I discreetly peeked at the glass front door of the place and saw girls dressed in shiny, sequinned, Lycra outfits trotting around.
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We eventually figured out that the problem was caused by bad guttering and some rotting wood between the roof and said gutter.
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We caught up with him and first asked him about the standout moments from his recent globetrotting.
The Sun
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He could smell food cooking, baking, frying, and rotting.
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Bill Czolgosz alters, edits, expurgates, massacres and abridges the original Twain narrative with gusto; and delivers up a whimsyladen trek through the rotting heart of the Zombie Apocalypse.
The War of The Worlds
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Sadly, a big chunk of this money mountain is rotting away in obsolete accounts that pay a pittance in interest.
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Here come the tumbrils, inching their way slowly through the rotting cabbages.
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The past five years have seen political stagnation with the government and opposition deadlocked, and the rotting away of the foundation of democracy has begun.
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She was trapped behind the burladero, and there was no way she could get to that door past the bull, which was already beginning the charge that would surely now take him through the rotting board which was her only remaining protection.
Salvage for the Saint
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We visited one site on horseback, trotting along deserted coastlines before cutting inland and following a rough trail winding between the salt mines.
The Sun
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Despite the fame and the globetrotting, the couple's domestic existence is reassuringly familiar.
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And telling us that they have binned the anthem and the flag and the word ‘constitution’ will not do, nor will trotting out the singularly psittacine mantra of 'the constitutional concept is abandoned'.
Archive 2007-09-09
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They detected a rotting smell and pulled up floorboards.
The Sun
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And therefore belike Solomon, Prov.xiv. 13, calls it, the rotting of the bones, Cyprian, vulnus occultum;
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The roof of a one-time fine farmstead is falling in, a gable end collapsed, lath and plaster rotting - romantic?
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The babies were globetrotting before they were even born as Maeve was pregnant with them when she and Ronan decided to move back to their native Cork city for the births.
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Early writings about it claim that its blossoms emitted an aroma reminiscent of the stench of "a thousand dead elephants rotting in the sun.
Smithsonian Mag
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The irony is that players new to artificial surfaces tread as gingerly on them as if they were trotting on greasy or icy grass.
Times, Sunday Times
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And begob what was it only that bloody old pantaloon Denis Breen in his bathslippers with two bloody big books tucked under his oxter and the wife hotfoot after him, unfortunate wretched woman, trotting like a poodle.
Ulysses
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People are always trotting out banal statistics and clichés to placate those who appear to be in a spot of bother.
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He could smell the familiar odour of rotting foliage in his nostrils.
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Other complaints include cracking walls and rotting door frames that let in rats and ants.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cargo, 4500 tons of bagged lentils, has long gone and the steel is rotting and sagging towards final, inevitable collapse.
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The extended period of damp has seen widespread rotting and poor quality and size.
Times, Sunday Times
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By now the scent of rotting windfalls were heavy on the air, and the apples were taken from the trees, turned into jam, or stored among layers of straw for use later on.
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I'm dog-tired of being accused of trotting out clichéd terms.
Sarah Schmelling: Dan Brown, Annoying Facebook Friend
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The stench emanating from the cankerous sores, feces, urine, and rotting corpses will be immense, but like their brethren pigs who also have highly developed senses of smell, the dogs will simply need to live with the fetid air and pneumonia they develop.
Meat's Meat....So Let's Eat
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It was the smell, the smell of his own dug-out, a vile odour of putrefaction, of rotting bodies, of blood, of stale human sweat.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Aspergillus fumigatus is a common fungus that grows on soil, plant debris and rotting vegetation in the autumn and winter.
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Trotting the far bank overhanging trees utilising stick float and caster three chub plus a specimen barbel of 7-15-0 obliged.
