Sentence examples for rot into from inspiring English sources

"This is the time to address the conflicts, not when they ripen and then rot into scandal," he said.

In a practical sense, he said, "an anaerobic digester is a tool to convert waste products — anything that would rot — into bio-gas and wonderful fertilizer".

Rather, it is cut high on the stalk and the remains of the plant are left to rot into a mat of organic material.

What originally began as songs of love and sacrifice quickly rot into gay-bashing and the dangerous, yet indistinct talk of enemies everywhere.

We think we die and rot into the ground, and thus must squeeze everything in before it's too late.

The plants will get energy from the soil and light, the leaves will die off through time (replaced by new ones) and will rot into the soil, recycling nutrients and giving back the water that was retained in the leaves.

But the Arab spring's fruit has rotted into renewed autocracy and war.

But the relationship curdled over time, and, ultimately, it rotted into nothing.

I have seen dead buffalo rotting into a stinking pool of goo just yards from where children are playing.

From the dungeons of remote medieval monasteries he rescued precious manuscripts that had been rotting into oblivion, and laboriously deciphered and copied them.

His body was given to his original captor, who drank the blood and wore the flayed skin until, in the words of the military historian John Keegan, "it and its scraps of attached flesh rotted into deliquescence".