When he gets in a bait over anything it is always a sound plan to get him to talk about one of these rotten things.
We saw many signs of their work, tearingrotten logs to pieces in search of grubs and bees' nests.
A piece of dry, rotten wood was fastened to a long pole and was set on fire.
He loved the rottenas a dog loves garbage, and he raised it by his art to fascination.
The Farnham stable is absolutely rottenat present.
Dash it all," as I said to my solicitor this morning, "I might just as well have bought a rotten mortgage.
Rotten weather," he growled, as he came up the steps of the club.
The plaster's rottenas possible," answered Andrew after a moment, during which he had been hacking boyishly at it with his knife.
As I say, I've made a rotten failure of everything, but there's one chance left!
We soon, however, got on a light rotten earth, and were again obliged to make for the river, with the teams completely exhausted.
Hopkinson in particular exerted himself, and more than once leapt from the boat upon apparently rotten logs of wood, that I should not have judged capable of bearing his weight, the more effectually to save the boat.
At the vintage, which commences towards the end of October and lasts until the middle of the following month, all the rotten or unripe grapes are carefully set aside, and the sound ones only submitted to the action of a screw-press.
Something was rotten in it; it needed some reforming.
All the material of the world was rotten wood: he might have learned that lesson;--only there are lessons that Such a One never learns.
The rotten thing, to begin with, was Marquis Ting himself; who was of such stuff as Confucius referred to when he said: "You cannot carve rotten wood.
He had found no more likely material than Duke Ling of Wei, who at least was always glad to see and talk with him:--might not be jade to carve, but was the wood least rotten at hand.
The rotten wood crumbled under his hands time and again: under his bodily hands;--but it made no difference to him.
Then you can hustle the crowd together and I'll be waiting ready at my shack to play my part--the dirty rotten Judas racket.
Only at the time of the armistice, when they were pelted with rotten vegetables, did they realise that something was amiss.
The juice hereof dropped, or tents dipped therein, and applied either to green wounds or filthy rotten ulcers, and those that come by envenomed weapons, doth soon cleanse and heal them.
This includes the policing of all reservoirs and the filtering of the water; the refrigerating of meat and milk; the condemning of rotten fruit and vegetables; the collecting and disposal of all garbage and waste.
Still waters are not necessarily unwholesome, even though there is rotten vegetation in them.
They, as well as fat pine, are almost imperishable, and those sticking out of old rotten logs are as good as any.
There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone, too.
Trafford's trail led Marjorie through the thicket of dwarf willows and down to the gully of the rivulet which they had called Marjorie Trickle; it had long since become a trough of snow-covered, rotten ice.
Hence rotten thing, or I shall shake thy bones Out of thy Garments Sicin.
To loose it selfe in a Fogge, where being three parts melted away with rotten Dewes, the fourth would returne for Conscience sake, to helpe to get thee a Wife 2 Cit.
Most appear to confound changed leaves with withered ones, as if they were to confound ripe apples with rotten ones.
Those which lie exposed are quite brown androtten now, or perchance a few still show one blooming cheek here and there amid the wet leaves.
The whole system of casual poor law relief is about as rotten and as stupid as it can be, and its administration is in itself a scandal.
I don't know wherre you'rre going or what you'rre going to do and I don't carre a rotten apple.
Certainly it had not been used for many years except apparently by fishermen occasionally, and the rotten condition of the seines showed that even such visitors had long since ceased to use it.
Any one who has seen a pond in winter, when the ice round the edge is rotten and when a breeze blows across it, is aware how the loose sheet which covers the centre creaks and groans as it is driven against the bank.
He began lustily to drive in the chisel, but so rotten was the ice, that instead of merely chipping out a crevice, he cracked the top of the lump.
The Church shall rise and vindicate her son; She tells us, all her Bishops shepherds are- And shepherds heal their rotten sheep with tar.
Longhead, too, picked up a piece of the lighted punk and, after blowing upon it for a few minutes, dropped it carelessly at his feet, where it fell upon some dry rotten wood and leaves.
Once there, the man sought for dry, rotten wood and small twigs, which they piled upon the punk and, after some vigorous blowing, produced flame.
The rotten wood and leaves upon which he had dropped the punk had ignited and the fire had reached his foot.
There was an occasional crackle as a rotten twig or branch snapped beneath the hoofs.
Dry twigs crackled beneath them, rotten bough and withered bush went down, and a murmur went up when they rode out into the snow again.
I'm a rotten cad, but I apologise to you just the same.
She suffered him to lead her up the steep bank beyond and through the rocks and rotten timbers to the great beam that protruded from the shattered foundations of the mill.
I'm not such a rotten catch, if I do say it who shouldn't.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rotten" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
