Sentence examples for rotten from inspiring English sources

Deep down, you just know that the exuberant reaction to her announcement will have cheesed off our lot something rotten.

If they wanted to throw rotten fruit, they could have done.

It is the 21st-century equivalent of the pre-1832 "rotten boroughs" with their handfuls of voters, a political elite of Westminster insiders saddled with outdated ideas.

It would not be penance for a rotten year in which MPs have been castigated over their expenses and the prime minister has been criticised for just about everything.

I have long been drawn to the work of writers who – in Emerson's phrase – seek to "pierce rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things".

[I did, and it led to a page that says: "Well, this is rotten. But, a 404 Error is still better than five more years of Tory government".] PO: The welcome pack itself has a membership card and a booklet called "Making the most of your membership", full of different ways to get involved.

Only robust proposals for reform will dispel the feeling that something is rotten in the state of Westminster.

"That's a terrible message to get out to British taxpayers, it's a really rotten message," she added.

If it's not pivotal, it's merely a rotten part.

The Beano publisher DC Thomson has collaborated in an official "mod" for the popular game, replacing default characters and items with Dennis and Gnasher, as well as catapults, rotten tomatoes, stink bombs and Dennis' nemesis Walter.

Another group of migrants are only alive thanks to a quirk of fate: their boat was so rotten it sank almost immediately.