Sentence example with the word 'putrescent'

putrescent

Definition adj. becoming putrid

Last update: October 29, 2015


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Putrescent corpses were removed from the mortury.   [Please select]

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Not to speak of insects which feed upon the pitcher itself, some drop their eggs into the putrescent mass, where their larvae find abundant nourishment, while birds often slit open the pitchers with their beaks and devour the maggots in their turn.   [Please select]

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Baron Osten Sacken informs me that it is a Drosophila, "the species of which live in putrescent vegetable matter, especially fruits."   [Please select]

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By evolving oxygen it brings putrescent particles under the influence of a species of combustion, which, though slow, is as effectual as that which a furnace could accomplish.   [Please select]

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We then see the Scolia itself turn brown, distended as it is with putrescent foodstuffs, and then cease all movement, without attempting to withdraw from the sanies.   [Please select]

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