How to Use rot in a Sentence
- The apples were left to rot.
- The wood had rotted away.
- Eating too much candy can rot your teeth.
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Do not pile mulch against the tree’s trunk; that can cause the bark to rot.
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Beth Botts,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2023
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Since this is a desert species, keeping the dirt moist will cause the roots to rot.
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Katarina Avendaño,
Good Housekeeping,
28 Mar. 2023
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The first is a man, face down on the roots of a tree, rotting on a pathway.
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Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
15 Apr. 2023
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May all of their souls rot in hell when their time comes.
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Colleen Slevin and Matthew Brown,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Dec. 2023
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In the evening, the water may puddle and cause the roots to rot, Stewart added.
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Madeline Holcombe,
CNN,
4 Feb. 2024
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Though it’s set 60 years in the past, the horrors and rot at the center of the Catholic Church have since come to light publicly.
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Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
8 Mar. 2024
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The rope is also soft to the touch and won't rot or mold, even in the harshest elements.
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Stefanie Hammond,
Chicago Tribune,
20 July 2023
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Where piles of kelp had washed up to rot on the beach last year, swaths of black sand took over this summer.
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Emily Schwing,
Anchorage Daily News,
4 Oct. 2022
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Even Barry got a quick death, but Cousineau took all the blame and is rotting in prison.
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Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
29 May 2023
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Most yellow jacket nests are in the ground or hollow trees, and the old nests just rot away.
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Jeanne Huber,
Washington Post,
15 Mar. 2024
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The book does point to the fact that, even as the ice rots away, reaching the pole has gotten to be like climbing Denali.
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David James,
Anchorage Daily News,
18 June 2023
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Why not use leap day to do a little bed rotting and catch up?
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Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Feb. 2024
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Water when the soil feels dry and let the excess drain away to prevent roots from rotting.
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Lynn Coulter,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Oct. 2023
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The culprit of blossom end rot in tomatoes is not a bug or a disease.
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Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 July 2023
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Decades later, those trees have rotted, sinking the earth down a bit.
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Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
29 Mar. 2024
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One side of its trunk is rotting, and the tree has lost several limbs and a major branch.
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Samantha Latson,
Washington Post,
7 July 2023
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Old wood in the centers of trees may rot away, erasing years of history.
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Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
3 May 2023
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There’s a rotting half-onion in the fridge because Annie cut it and nobody can bear to throw it out.
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Catherine Newman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Mar. 2024
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When the eggs hatch, the larvae — which are grubs — feed on the core of the plant, leaving it vulnerable to rot from the inside out.
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Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Sep. 2023
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My mouth tasted of something sweet and rotting and my face was swollen up like a pool float.
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Annie Lord,
Vogue,
9 Dec. 2023
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The tale is set in an haut-bourgeois paradise that seems to be rotting from within.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2023
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But piling it up like a volcano around your tree traps moisture against the trunk, which can cause rot.
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Rachael Baihn,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Oct. 2022
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Left to rot on the beach, sargassum can turn into a problem.
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Suman Naishadham,
Fortune,
22 Mar. 2023
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Now, most of those same tiny peaches and blooms are rotting off the branches and falling to the ground, Pearson said.
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Drew Kann The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns),
al,
4 Apr. 2023
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In some places, the carcasses rot in the open and the pained cries of sick animals are resound in villages.
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Aniruddha Ghosal,
BostonGlobe.com,
29 Sep. 2022
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Turn each gourd every few days and remove any that show signs of rotting.
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Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Sep. 2023
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In summer, the water is as warm as 78 degrees and edged with slimy green algae blooms that float to the surface and rot.
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Los Angeles Times,
6 Dec. 2022
- That's a lot of rot!
- They found a lot of rot in the house's roof.
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The wind shifted, and an odor of rot enveloped the barge.
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New York Times,
14 June 2022
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The good news is the Rangers have already cleared out the rot and torn things down to the studs.
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Evan Grant,
Dallas News,
12 Feb. 2021
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Even as a heap of rot, Nana is Venus, a stream of gold, a myth.
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Namwali Serpell,
The New York Review of Books,
6 July 2022
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But the moral rot of the lie begins to poison his soul.
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Nate Jones,
Vulture,
10 Aug. 2021
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Too much has happened in the country for the rot to have not been there.
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Angela Andaloro,
Peoplemag,
14 Sep. 2023
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Slide back the plastic trim that rims the wheel arches to look for rot.
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Brett Berk,
Car and Driver,
4 Sep. 2023
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Shells of which time had sucked out the rot, things that have done with dying.
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Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
4 May 2023
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The rot sets in early, during the school years to be precise.
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Ananya Bhattacharya,
Quartz,
23 Dec. 2021
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What is the rot in the democracy that allowed the 6th to happen?
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Daniella Diaz,
CNN,
19 Dec. 2021
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The crop falls to the ground and rots, attracting elephants, drawn to the bounty.
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Tayari Jones,
Travel + Leisure,
26 July 2023
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Nothing has been done about the rot that had been eating away at the sport for years.
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Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
3 May 2021
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The tree can’t absorb soil nutrients because of the rot, and the tree dies.
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oregonlive,
18 Dec. 2022
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Some senior Catholics have spoken out against the rot in the church and pushed for action.
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Andrew Higgins,
New York Times,
28 Nov. 2022
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His face bore not the solemn trace of history but the mark of the national rot to come.
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Joseph O’Neill,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2024
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The story of the Senate’s rot is first and foremost the story of Mitch McConnell.
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Ira Shapiro,
The New Republic,
6 May 2022
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The rot runs so deep that, per the duo, Republicans should boycott the runoffs.
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Rich Lowry,
National Review,
4 Dec. 2020
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The 2019 training synopsis MPD shared with us reveals at least some of the rot in the tree.
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Ayanna Watkins,
CNN,
11 Feb. 2023
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The extent of the rot, and the dire risks facing the building and its inhabitants, are well known.
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Simon Montlake,
The Christian Science Monitor,
6 July 2023
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The boys lost to our culture’s rot need better role models.
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Liam Siegler,
National Review,
30 July 2023
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Last year, my wife and I bought our first house, a 70-year-old Cape Cod with a little rot on the porch and a few cracks in the ceiling.
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Clint Carter,
Popular Mechanics,
31 Aug. 2020
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And no need to worry about rot and fungus since the base has slots to allow airflow through the soil.
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Jennifer Carmichael,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 Feb. 2023
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Of course, to many members of the public, the rot is the only thing worth paying attention to.
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Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2022
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And if the rot is pervasive, buy a new roof with a new car under it instead.
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Ray Magliozzi,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Feb. 2022
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These things take time, though, and the rot at the club ran so deep it cannot be fixed overnight or in one transfer window or in one year.
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James Nalton,
Forbes,
29 Dec. 2022
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Or, to take the bad-apple analogy on its own clichéd terms, the rot indeed spreads throughout the bunch.
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Samuel G. Freedman,
The New Republic,
21 June 2023
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Paxton is the poster child for the rot created by a one-party system in this state.
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Gilbert Garcia,
ExpressNews.com,
11 Dec. 2020
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These works illustrate how the roots of so much political rot can be found in the past.
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Kate Cray,
The Atlantic,
11 Nov. 2022
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Cutting too far outside the branch collar leaves wood that will rot and this rot can spread into the tree.
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Roy Berendsohn,
Popular Mechanics,
17 July 2023
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