The Palazzo del Te is marvellous--only one story high, gigantic rooms covered with grand frescoes opening on sunny lawns with picturesquedecaying avenues.
On one of the gates they passed was written "Hiemath," and there was something very characteristic of the jerry-built and decaying place in the cheap sentiment that had been too slovenly to spell its own name correctly.
The harbour was full of ice in a rapidly decaying state.
The sea beneath me was a mottled sheet of white and dark patches, these latter being either soft decaying ice, or places where the ice had wholly disappeared.
On their great grave-highway did I seat myself, and even beside the carrion and vultures--and I laughed at all their bygone and its mellow decaying glory.
Despisers of life are they, decaying ones and poisoned ones themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so away with them!
But above all, making one forget even the presence of the uncounted dead, is the stench of decaying coffee, rice and other vegetable products that lie swelling with the heat and putrefying.
When I left the city the stench from decaying human bodies was simply terrible and almost unbearable.
After having passed on his way more than a hundred decaying bodies of the storm victims, the heroic young man set about finding his wife and little boy.
Doesn't it ever occur to you that since your family established itself in its possessions in Somersetshire, it's been decaying in purpose, decaying in spirit, decaying in power?
We can no longer afford to have them the last preserves of an elderly orthodoxy and the last repository of a decaying gift of superseded tongues.
He rose superior to the malady which confined his withered frame to the couch of sickness; the film of decaying nature was upon his eyes; but yet he fixed them intensely on that fading form that bore the resemblance of his once-beloved child.
Prostrate and weakened as Don Manuel was, the sound of his daughter's voice, and her pathetic appeal, awakened all his latent feelings, and gave a new impulse to his decaying frame.
His wrongs, instead of accelerating the progress of death, seemed instantly to check its strides, while the desire of revenge so powerfully operated on his mind, that it warmed the torpid energies of decaying mortality.
Facing me was an altar trimmed with decayinglace and supporting a mildewed breviary, and before it, in full armor, with gauntleted hands outstretched, was the effigy of a kneeling knight.
Upon its uplands, its clay and decaying herbage have combined for ages to create a soil wonderfully adapted to produce grass and fruits, and the industrious are luxuriating in nature's prodigality.
Again, if the aquarium is overstocked with plants, so that they are crowded so closely that the light fails to reach some of them, decomposition will take place, and everything will become a decaying mass.
They are always on the look-out for decaying animal or vegetable matter, which, if not in too large quantities, they speedily devour.
It was 20 feet from the ground in a soft decaying bamboo on the edge of large jungle.
The decaying tree, while yet it lives, demands sun, wind, and rain no less than the green one.
It was to the same quarters, too, on the breaking up of this immense Roman mass, that the main element of its strength moved onward, although the mere shadow of empire remained in the slow decaying East.
As the traveler rode past the decaying hall, the gloomy woods, and waste black moorlands of Sporeen, he read the riddle of Ireland's fate, and asked himself when an OEdipus would arise to solve it.
At length some fishermen passing by the floating island, scared a large kite from the rushes, and discovered the decaying body of the hapless girl.
Frequent in the saw-grass marsh habitat in the grass stratum and, during the dry season, in decaying vegetation on the marsh floor.
In Virginia he found Parcoblatta uhleriana in a decaying chestnut log with Cryptocercus punctulalus.
Moderately numerous in leaf litter in mangrove swamp; in decaying herbage (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).
Dozier (1920) occasionally found Periplaneta americana with Eurycotis floridana in decaying stumps, beneath loose bark of decayed trees, and beneath corded wood.
Found in oak and pine woods, under bark ofdecaying chestnut log and dead chestnut stump, and under signs on trees including oaks (Hebard, 1917).
In decaying leaves in forest (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).
She died, and I, crushed into the very dust with sorrow, could no longer endure the lonely desolation of my dwelling in the dim and decaying city by the Rhine.
Yet I believe that I met her first and most frequently in some large, old, decaying city near the Rhine.
The nest is built on the ground, in holes in fir trees under decaying bark, sometimes in holes in the ground--and is formed for the most part of green moss, the interior being warmly lined with hair.
The nest of the Great Crested Grebe is built of variousdecaying plants, and floats on the water.
It is only by means of hard blows that this bird can get at the worms which it finds in decaying wood.
The plants to be looked over every morning, and every dead or decaying leaf and flower to be removed.
Careful attention should now be given to the picking off mouldy and dead leaves, decaying flower-stems, &c.
If the houses are dry, kept free from drip, and the scissors employed amongst decaying berries, the fruit that now remains will be in a good condition for holding on for a long time.
Remove all decayed and decaying leaves, and keep the atmosphere in as healthy a state as possible.
Continue to look over the ripe Grapes, cutting out any decaying berries.
To be looked over, and the dead and decaying leaves removed.
The plants must be kept clear ofdecaying leaves and flowers.
But the general intellectual life was merely imitative and retrospective; and the middle and upper classes, for which the higher schools existed, were already decaying in Gaul as elsewhere.
And fear not, father, for anything that may result from those tempestuous winds that are now beating against you, those decaying members which have rebelled against you.
Did people understand that they are as truly poisoned in such dens as by tainted meat and decaying vegetables, would they not appoint commissioners for houses as truly as commissioners for markets?
Now we rode past myriads ofdecaying cadavers and skeletons, which filled the air with an insufferable stench.
Moreover, as the number of animals killed was greater than could be removed, the decaying carcasses attracted wolves, and even worse foes, to the farmyard, and terrible damage to cattle resulted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decaying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: decadent; decrepit; deterioration; dilapidated; effete; mouldy; putrid; seedy; shabby
