Sentence examples for rotting through from inspiring English sources

Once in the hands of Jabhat al-Nusra, it lay rotting through three years, under government control but almost empty, until the army struck north of Aleppo and began to conquer its enemies along the Turkish border – and the people started to come back to al-Qadam.

When the White House floats two names for the Supreme Court vacancy Neil M. Gorsuch, an originalist who is nonetheless erudite and circumspect, and William H. Pryor, Jr., who not so long ago argued that anti-sodomy laws were constitutional there's no reason for wishful thinking, for imagining that things are mellowing out when in fact they are rotting through.

(MGM, Nov. 12, $19.98) CHARLES TAYLOR NEW YORK, NEW YORK At the time of its release Martin Scorsese's "New York, New York" (1977) came off as a failed experiment: Mr. Scorsese had wanted to make a highly stylized movie musical, complete with exuberant, candy-toned production numbers, about a couple whose relationship is not just frayed at the edges but on the verge of rotting through.

I subscribed to the Vaseline method: coating each egg with a thin film of Vaseline, inhibiting any air loss (which contributes to rotting), through the shell.

A couch rots through seasons and then catches fire".

As for Max's moral core: it has rotted through.

Portions of the floor had rotted through, and you had to stay away from those.

With a paper bag, he said, "I'd worry it'd rot through".

Congo's longtime ruler, Mobutu Sese Seko, presided over an increasingly unstable nation rotted through by his autocratic rule.

The cottage had a thatched roof, and though it was rotted through in half a dozen places and perfervid with the little lives of crawling things and rodents, she didn't seem particular.

The once-mighty tree, now diseased and rotted through the trunk, snapped about three feet above ground, crashed across several gardens and damaged a brick wall and several sheds.