Sentence examples for which rots from inspiring English sources

On 10 June, sequencers unveiled the genome of Phytophthora ramorum, the cause of sudden oak death, and also of Phytophthora sojae, which rots the roots of soybeans.

An orchid whose leafs look wilted or limp can be suffering from either too much water, which rots the roots and makes water unavailable to the leaves, or it can be too dry.

In an era during which rotting molars were the norm, he says, "people expected their teeth to fall out".

The skeleton suggests he spent years in agony from a shattered kneecap, and may eventually have died poisoned by an abscess which rotted a hole through his jaw.

What he needn't point out are the barges, which rot as nicely shaped timbers where the highest tide has left them and are in their way picturesque.

Outside it smelled always of generator diesel and often of dead dogs, which rotted by the roadside untouched for fear they hid an I.E.D.

Worst of all was an intern who contracted a rare bug that has been isolated in patients with congenital and fatal pulmonary disease, which rotted a hole in her lung so severe that she required surgical intervention.

He emphasised the importance of sound institutions and sensible policies in improving the lot of poorer nations, many of which rotted from the entrenched depredations of a self-serving governing class.

The ash hardened around their corpses, which rotted away to leave body-shaped voids from which casts have been made.

It's the big roadblock, behind which rotting computer inventory, busted business models and shattered investor dreams are piling up.

It's America's big roadblock, behind which rotting computer inventory, busted business models and shattered investor dreams are piling up.