Sentence examples for the decayed from inspiring English sources

Ms. Green said ants do not typically eat wood, but rather nest in the decayed spaces.

The chunk somehow ended up in the "decayed industrial town" of Worksop, in Nottinghamshire, England.

More than 100 blocks stretch west from the decayed center city to the pastoral speedway site.

Tehran released gruesome pictures of the recovery, and of the decayed and bound corpses still dressed in diving gear.

His life spanned the decades in which the decayed imperial city became the Rome of the medieval papacy.

With the fading Church and the decayed Big House much of the old communal life has gone.

Instead, as one waits they begin to suggest historical ruins: Minoan palaces, Greek temples and the decayed industrial "monuments" that mesmerized the artist andpoet Robert Smithson.

An employee of the Connecticut Historical Society stumbled across the decayed silk Treasury Guard flag in 1998; three subsequent years of research have proved the flag's authenticity.

What remains of George Smiley is not the spy business, however ingenious, but a stoic shabbiness that speaks of the decayed illusions of postwar empire.

Tokiwadaira residents were spurred into action five years ago after the decayed corpse of an elderly man was found inside his flat three years after his death.

Intellectuals like Mr. Benaboud wonder if it is possible to bolster tourism without turning the decayed architectural gems and virgin coasts into a made-for-tourists stage set.