Sentence examples for them to rot from inspiring English sources
Leave them to rot, scream the headlines.
Even Rezanov was horrified by the way early colonists killed a million seals (30,000 in one day) and left them to rot.
It ends in a cascade of violence as rebels ransack white villages, slicing the dead open and leaving them to rot with their genitalia stuffed in their mouths.
REBUILD (AND MAINTAIN) INFRASTRUCTURE Haiti obviously needs homes, schools, roads, a reliable power system — but it also needs the money to maintain them, instead of the usual practice of building projects and leaving them to rot.
"Approximately 200 yards behind the facility, Mr. de los Santos drags dead cattle (mostly old dairy cows) and piles them on a concrete pad where he leaves them to rot," Dr. Nelson wrote.
I just left them on the counter to rot or not rot what did it matter?
Filling the floor of the mosque in its entirety, many of them had already begun to rot, and one was so badly burnt that it looked less like a body and more like a blackened tree stump.
It is bad for the economy, bad for the nation, to let entire communities wither and die; to let their residents, broke and traumatized, wash up on the shores of other communities that may or may not have the resources to absorb them; to leave infrastructures to rot.
Reporting from Bucharest this week, VICE's Max Daly reported on how Bucharest's drug-addicted community, many of them Roma, are "being left to rot".
They can be repaired or replaced easily and simply, but once water gets under them, roof decking can begin to rot, attic insulation becomes wet and moldy, and ceilings can be stained or damaged.
