How to Use rotten in a Sentence

rotten

adjective
Definition of rottennext
Synonyms for rottennext
  • They did a rotten job.
  • What rotten weather we're having.
  • Here’s the golden rule: When in doubt, toss the maybe-rotten egg out.
    — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Gas leaks in the home can take many forms, and not all of them smell like rotten eggs.
    — Lynn Redmile, Good Housekeeping, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Do the roots look light colored and healthy or dark and smelling sort of rotten?
    — oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Even those at the very top of the rotten pyramid had not escaped.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2022
  • That the smell of rotten eggs and rotting meat will come out of her kitchen tap again.
    — Sara Sidner, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
  • In addition to the area’s stifling heat, the pools reek of rotten eggs.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Something is rotten in the Great British Bake Off tent.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 11 Nov. 2022
  • No one wants to eat an apple that has a rotten core, right?
    — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 3 Oct. 2022
  • This is produced as the seaweed rots, and smells like rotten eggs.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Does the aura that enfolds it not lie at the rotten root of the story of Lydia Tár?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The sign was rusted and rotten, giving way to termites and time.
    — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Rotterdammers were none too pleased and threatened to pelt the yacht with rotten eggs.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2023
  • A half-hour north, near the town of Olyphant, a 15-acre fire in an underground coal mine vents a rotten egg smell through crevices and pipes.
    — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Threads might be the shiny Twitter rival of the week, but Meta has a rotten record with projects outside its core apps.
    — WIRED, 6 July 2023
  • This happens to suit a rotten tendency of mine, which is to work rather than play.
    — Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022
  • On Friday, a sour, rotten stench came from the back of the building, where windows were broken.
    — Jesse Bedayn The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2023
  • But when life makes strangers cry, our hearts can go cold — like, throw-a-rotten-tomato cold.
    — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
  • What people watching the video don’t see is that the pies had all kinds of roasted rotten tomatoes in them.
    — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2022
  • That way, no one has to spend April 9—or any other day of the year, for that matter—feeling ill over a rotten egg.
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 12 Mar. 2023
  • All of the sudden, things don't seem so rotten for head coach Giovanni Savarese's side.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Like when teams or players run afoul of the NCAA, or one coach calls another coach a dirty rotten scoundrel.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Videos of rotten fruit mauled by maggots played in the elevators whisking guests to the 18th floor.
    — Vogue, 28 Oct. 2023
  • But investors in the United States (and the rest of the world for that matter) don’t have much to be grateful for in what is turning out to be a rotten 2022.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Still, American Pie made a big impact on the genre and, ripe or rotten, is still one of the most iconic films on this list.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Ramji admits that the smell can be a challenge: Raw hing has been compared to rotten cabbage.
    — Shalbha Sarda, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The epoxy option works well when a section of a window frame or standard door is rotten.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Their complaints about rotten food are ignored by staff, the lawsuit says.
    — Stephanie Casanova, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2022
  • The Jeep franchise was wholesome enough, but the passenger-car side dish smelled rotten.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 11 Apr. 2023

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