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Example sentences for "putrefying"

Lexicographically close words:
putra; putrefaction; putrefactive; putrefied; putrefy; putrescence; putrescent; putrescible; putrid; putridity
  1. If they run into spiders, they give signs of higher putrefaction, as plenty of vipers and scorpions are confessed to do; the putrefying materials producing animals of higher mischief according to the advance and higher strain of corruption.

  2. To add to the horrors of the scene, portions of mangled and putrefying corpses protruded from many of them--ghastly skulls, from the sockets of which the eyes had been picked by vultures and other obscene birds.

  3. Deserted by his companions, his wounds putrefying under the hot sun, Konate lay stretched out by the spring silently awaiting the end.

  4. It also occurs in putrefying flour and urine, and is the ingredient which gives to the Chenopodium vulvaria its peculiar and disagreeable odour.

  5. The midden system is a bad one; even with every care, the vast heaps of putrefying material which accumulate in some of our towns must have a very serious influence on the health, and the sooner the middens are abolished the better.

  6. It should be applied, in its pure or undiluted state, to the suppurating and putrefying tissue between the claws.

  7. And, Gavegan, I don't see why the Board of Health lets you stay around the streets--when putrefying matter causes so much disease.

  8. Samson's dead lion putrefying by a roadside is ever and again being found to be a storehouse of wild honey.

  9. All putrefying vegetable and animal substances give off gases decidedly injurious to health, and if these gases have no free way of escape, they inevitably poison the atmosphere.

  10. The bulk of the heap is composed of ashes with a due admixture of putrefying vegetable matter and fish.

  11. From cities reeking with putrefying filth it was thought that the plague might be stayed by the prayers of the priests, by them rain and dry weather might be secured, and deliverance obtained from the baleful influences of eclipses and comets.

  12. No attempt was made at drainage, but the putrefying garbage and rubbish were simply thrown out of the door.

  13. And fainter gleams it as the waves grow rough, And still more faint as the sea widens; last I sicken on a dead gulf streaked with light From its own putrefying depths alone.

  14. England that you help, become through you A green and putrefying charnel, left Our children .

  15. It is made by trampling a mass of putrefying prawns and shrimps into a paste with bare feet.

  16. Even when Izanami dies and goes down to the land of Yomi, she does not become a ghost, but a putrefying corpse.

  17. By the Ika-dzuchi, which were generated from the putrefying corpse of Izanami, we must understand not thunders but personified diseases, the word being taken in its etymological signification.

  18. In the former case a clyster-pipe unarmed may be introduced, and left some time in the rectum, to take off the resistance of the sphincter, and thus discharge the air, as it is produced from the fermenting or putrefying aliment.

  19. Herein they form a complete contrast to the vultures, whose usual food is putrefying carrion, and fresh meat the exception.

  20. The living cells of the body produce minute quantities of alcohol, as also some of the bacteria normally inhabiting the small intestine produce small quantities of alcohol, and it is often found in traces in putrefying fluids.

  21. It occurs in a great variety of plants, and is also found in putrefying substances.

  22. It has been found in putrefying yeast, in wheat flour, and in the distillation of beet sugar residues.

  23. Garcia[664] in a putrefying mixture of horse-flesh and pancreas.

  24. It is a common base in putrefying animal substances, and also occurs in the urine in cases of cystinuria.

  25. Dimethylamine is also a gas; it has been found in various putrefying substances.

  26. The slightest wound from its paw filled with putrefying matter is calculated to bring tetanus and an agonizing death.

  27. Its purpose is to catch the liquids which may exude from the putrefying corpse, for the belief is general that malevolent Spirits are particularly fond of this form of nourishment.

  28. Nourished at the expense of putrefying organic matter, they reduce its complex constituents into soluble mineral substances, which they return to the soil to serve afresh for the nourishment of similar plants.

  29. In towns there was "no attempt made at drainage, but the putrefying garbage and rubbish were simply thrown out of the door.

  30. Limbs crushed by shot formed now mere heaps of putrefying flesh, faces a mere mass of coagulated blood, covered with filth, in which the mouth was represented by a shapeless black opening, from which frightful groans kept welling out.

  31. Have you any reason to believe that strychnia can be decomposed by any sort of putrefying or fermenting process?

  32. On re-examination by the Solicitor-General, the Witness explained that it was when corpses were putrefying that the cadaveric alkaloids were produced.

  33. I have experimented with strychnia mixed purposely with organic putrefying matter.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "putrefying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.