The cereals, for example, seldom thrive in Chiloe; the seedrots after the ear is formed.
However strongly made, they are not durable; for the changeableness of the weather quickly rots the ropes, which are made of untanned leather.
First Aunt Nabby gets up in the morning and examines the sink, to see whether it leaks and rots the beam.
For the same reason water is dangerous to a new fig graft because its soft wood rots easily.
It is apt to present itself in patches in different hues, and the effect on the hair is terrible—it often rots and crumbles away.
Since itrots the clothes, it is not advisable to use it.
The savage never so much as touches 'em or listens to 'em or imitates 'em, but he rotsdown right thar.
But I don't go; old Hickey excloodes me, an' my hopes of moosical eminence rots down right thar.
A creature of Dark hue becomes addicted to wicked acts and rots in hell His existence as an immobile object is hell itself.
Stained by wickedness, he rots in hell for innumerable years, for sinking in the sins of his subjects, he incurs great sin and infamy himself.
Clusters small and compact; berries medium size, amber; good; ripens with Catawba; rots and mildews.
He parts from his wife, diseases attack him under Captain Consumption; he rots away and dies in sinful security, CHAP.
Yea, it is so malignant a corruption, that it rots the very bones of him in whom it dwells.
The mat-sail, which costs far more than canvas, rots quickly if it gets wet, and must be unbent and taken into shelter after every trip.
He opens the Covering of the young Corn, so that the Rain gets in, and rots it.
They peck the Apples, to eat the Kernels, so that the Fruit rots and perishes.
Whose influence tortured or consoled the most: How each pale spectre of the host would turn From the fresh laurel and the glorious urn, To point where rots beneath a nameless stone, Some heart in which had ebb'd and flow'd its own!
Buying on a candled or graded basis, usually not only means rots cut, but that a variation of the price is made for two or more grades of merchantable eggs.
Measures have been frequently taken by city boards of health to stop the sale of spot rots and other low grade eggs.
By loss off, or "rots out," is meant the subtraction of the bad eggs from the number to be paid for.
The tree that arrives at maturity in a few years rots in as short a time when required for durability: thus it is no mystery, that either a house or a city should shortly fall to decay when the occupant is gone.
So great is the natural inactivity of the natives that no one understands the preparation of the skins; thus all the elk and deer hides are simply dried in the sun, and the hair soon rots and fills off.
The most prominent outward and visible sign of mourning is a long streamer of crape or black cloth, which is fastened to the door of the house and left there till it rots off.
One mode of charming warts away is to take an Elder-shoot, and rub it on the part, then cut as many notches on the twig as you have warts, bury it in a place where it will soon decay, and as it rots away the warts will disappear.
Liquid manure that stinks, gases which evaporate, flesh that rots is all that remains!
But the Church knows that the carrion of the rich rots as much as that of the poor, while his soul stinks more, but she jobs indulgences and haggles about masses; she, even she, is consumed by the lust of gold.
He has made his choice between us, and he can stick to it till he rots in the poorhouse.
Do you think I care whether his tobacco rots in the ground or out of it?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
