ROTTEN in a Sentence
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37 example sentences for ROTTEN, such as:
1. There is small choice in rotten apples.
2. Some of the wood was completely rotten.
3. The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
4. One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
5. The rotten apple injuries its neighbours.
2. Some of the wood was completely rotten.
3. The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
4. One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
5. The rotten apple injuries its neighbours.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ROTTEN
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rotten
a. damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 Those she found on the ground were mostly rotten.
2 The uprights which held the thick vines were rotten and that night Scarlett hacked at them with the kitchen knife until they fell and the tangled mass ran wild over the grave.
3 She's a spunky girl," said Tony, "and it's rotten luck for her, Joe getting killed.
4 She had been crawling with fear, rotten with fear, terrified by the Yankees, terrified by the approaching birth of Beau.
5 And you, Madam, will kindly refrain from undoing my work behind my back and foreclosing mortgages on any of the people I'm courting or selling them rotten lumber or in other ways insulting them.
6 It was a red-brick Ohio town, and the trees made it damp, and it smelled of rotten apples.
7 As Sissy said it, her eyes were attracted by another of those rotten fragments of fence upon the ground.
8 Therefore let's live the mental life, and glory in our spite, and strip the rotten old show.
9 They're the mingiest set of ladylike snipe ever invented: full of conceit of themselves, frightened even if their boot-laces aren't correct, rotten as high game, and always in the right.
10 Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
11 Then it was my turn, and I went through him as if he had been a rotten pumpkin.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
12 They wandered here and there with their absurd long staves in their hands, like a lot of faithless pilgrims bewitched inside a rotten fence.
13 It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do.
14 And, after all, they did not eat each other before my face: they had brought along a provision of hippo-meat which went rotten, and made the mystery of the wilderness stink in my nostrils.
15 Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo-meat, which couldn't have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn't, in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo, thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard.
Example Sentence:
1 One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
2 There is small choice in rotten apples.
3 Some of the wood was completely rotten.
4 The fish is rotten; you must not eat it.
5 The wood was so rotten you could put your finger through it.
6 The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
7 The rotten apple injuries its neighbours.
8 Police corruption is not just a few rotten apples.
9 The US Embassy in Manila found itself under a hail of rotten fruit early today, the latest symptom of anti-American feeling reverberating across Asia in recent days.
10 I smelt sickly eggs by the barrel, and rotten cabbages, and such things; and if I know the signs of a dead cat being around, and I bet I do, there was sixty-four of them went in.
11 Well, what of that? Suppose you find a brass pot with a hundred dollars in it, all rusty and gray, or rotten chest full of di'monds.