Sentence examples for gone to rot from inspiring English sources

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The hills are sliding into the city, cellphones have gone to static, expensive hairdos have gone to rot.

Now, an investigation by The Times has shown that New York's group homes for the disabled — thousands of widely dispersed, state-licensed residences that were intended to replace and mitigate the cruelty of the warehouses — have themselves gone to rot.

That is a beautiful riff, worthy of Chaplin, on the inverted values of a world gone to rot, whereas the gags in Anderson's film are more about themselves, delighting in the literal and the overparticular.

There is a deliberate attempt to demonise and marginalise the people featured in these programmes and in these papers, mags and books as 'The Other', as sub-human examples of a welfare system gone to rot, not an economic system that has failed them.

He spoke of a corrupt and self-dealing Washington, enriching itself while the rest of the country has gone to rot.

So our hero did as he was told, but when he went back to check on the meat a week later, it had gone to rot.

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"After independence, our built heritage was left to go to rot," Mr. Besson said.

She said he was going to rot in hell for that.

"But the wood's going to rot if I don't use it".

Is this going to rot? We've switched the material a couple times to improve our footprint.

"Forty, fifty percent of our crop is going to rot in the ground," said Gerald Roberts, the L.S.U.

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