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Sentences starting with rotten

Rotten of the men to make trouble now--don't you think?--when the country's at war! [9]

Sentences ending with rotten

Some leaned against the cliff, others against each other; many stood sheer and alone; all were crumbling, cracked, rotten. [13]

Short sentences using rotten

I've tasted the rotten meat. [11]
It's a rotten alphabet. [5]

More example sentences with the word rotten in them

But you had your chance with me, and you threw it down like a piece of rotten leather. [11]
The Semi-Homoeopathic practitioner will gradually withdraw from the rotten half of his business and try to make the public forget his connection with it. [3]
The summer-house of which Mr Quilp had spoken was a rugged wooden box, rotten and bare to see, which overhung the river's mud, and threatened to slide down into it. [12]
How'd you feel to light on a rotten chest full of gold and silver--hey? [5]
The only way to kill it and all similar fancies, and to throw every quack nostrum into discredit, is to root out completely the suckers of the old rotten superstition that whatever is odious or noxious is likely to be good for disease. [6]
Who were they to fight the bone and sinew of the King's navy in a rotten ship of an age gone by? [9]
The rock seems to be a clay formation, rotten and colored. [4]
I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. [5]
As usual, in their spare time, they lit bonfires, steamed themselves before them naked; smoked, picked out and baked sprouting rotten potatoes, told and listened to stories of Potemkin's and Suvorov's campaigns, or to legends of Alesha the Sly, or the priest's laborer Mikolka. [2]
Yesterday they gave the 'Thals' of Menander, and I assure you that in Alexandria the woman who dared to impersonate the bewitching and cold-hearted Hetaira would have been driven off the stage--they would have pelted her with rotten apples. [10]
Little on little the horses pull up, and stop at last not a hunder' feet from the great crack and the rotten ice. [11]
Do you remember the day I climbed out on the rotten branch of the big pear tree yonder to get you that pear--when I fell on the roof of Alfred's cabin? [9]
I am in the condition of a carpenter who is required to build a bridge with a dull axe, a broken saw, and rotten timber. [7]
The day o' the burial mine eyes were so sore a-draining I had to put a rotten sweet apple on 'em over-night--me. [11]
The old one sure enough looks rotten to me. [9]
We're rotten cotton stuff now in these isles. [11]
His grandeurs were stricken valueless: they seemed to fall away from him like rotten rags. [5]
Said he: "There's something rotten about this medicine-chest business. [5]
He was born so, educated so, his veins were full of ancestral blood that was rotten with this sort of unconscious brutality, brought down by inheritance from a long procession of hearts that had each done its share toward poisoning the stream. [5]
Human nature ain't so rotten, when you give it a chance. [9]
So, with a significant grin, she pointed under the table on which her fruit-baskets stood, and said "I have plenty of rotten ones. [10]
She was perfectly rotten, and in the constructor's opinion not worth refitting. [9]
The tree is rotten to the core and can crush no one in its fall, but it will cover all who stand near it with dust and rubbish. [10]
But France is rotten through the prodigality of her kings and nobles, and she cannot hold Louisiana. [9]
The times are rotten in England. [9]
This is a rotten cotton show. [11]
It's all a rotten business, anyhow," he rejoined. [11]
Here were the rotten beam, the sinking arch, the sapped and mouldering wall, the lowly trench of earth, the stately tomb on which no epitaph remained--all--marble, stone, iron, wood, and dust--one common monument of ruin. [12]
I had a rotten bad dream last night--dreampt about rats. [5]
The quantity of refuse, broken, and rotten mica piled up about the factories is immense, and all the roads round about glisten with its scales. [4]
My Autobiography is pretty freely dictated, but my idea is to jack-plane it a little before I die, some day or other; I mean the rude construction and rotten grammar. [5]
And it was presently agreed that the horse was to be at noon in the King's Old Road, or Rotten Row (as it was then beginning to be called), in Hyde Park. [9]
When they entered on him, wasted and ragged he lay asleep on his bed of rotten straw, his fingers between the leaves of a book of meditations. [11]
For instance, one of his favourite disciples was willing to shake the nuts from the rotten branches of a nut tree which no one dared to climb if he might have half the harvest. [10]
He said we must not try to go on till we found it again, for we were surrounded with beds of rotten lava through which we could easily break and plunge down a thousand feet. [5]
He said the most of Sir Dinadan's jokes were rotten and the rest were petrified. [5]
It's hid in mighty particular places, Huck --sometimes on islands, sometimes in rotten chests under the end of a limb of an old dead tree, just where the shadow falls at midnight; but mostly under the floor in ha'nted houses. [5]
And so it makes it so rotten difficult to get up a difficult plan. [5]
The rooms were low and damp, the clammy walls were pierced with chinks and holes, the rotten floors had sunk from their level, the very beams started from their places and warned the timid stranger from their neighbourhood. [12]
At these places long detours were necessary, on steep hillsides and through gullies, over treacherous sink-holes in the rocks, through quaggy places, heaps of brush, and rotten logs. [4]
Even if a little punk were discovered in a rotten log I had no hatchet to cut fuel. [4]
The house was like the tree the shingles all rotten, but the beams were sound. [9]
On the floor lay a rusty sword and a rotten fan. [5]
This was a large room, like a salon, and had a big table in it of enduring oak and well preserved; but the chair were worm-eaten and the tapestry on the walls was rotten and discolored by age. [5]
Taxation without representation is true of your rotten boroughs as well as of your vast colonies. [9]
I think there is only one funnier thing, and that is the spectacle of these bastard Americans--these Hamersleys and Huntingtons and such--offering cash, encumbered by themselves, for rotten carcases and stolen titles. [5]
So he cut into his wife's state-room from above with an ax; she was asleep in the upper berth, the roof a flimsier one than was supposed; the first blow crashed down through the rotten boards and clove her skull. [5]
And then, as I stared him in the eye, marvelling how a man of such vast power and ability could stand for such rotten practices, the thought came to me (I know not whence) of Saint Paul the Apostle. [9]
Ferocity was in his heart, a vitriolic note was in his voice as he said to David, "If this be true-- the army rotten, the officers disloyal, treachery under every tunic-- bismillah, speak! [11]
The palisades that held its earthenwork were rotten and crumbling, and the mighty bastions of its corners sliding away. [9]
So imbued was he with the spirit of Abraham Lincoln that his hearers caught it; and that was the end of the rotten eggs and the cabbages. [9]
The men now, having been kept at the oars ten days, tossed about by storms, and with nothing to eat but bread rotten from the wet, supposed that the Captain would turn about and go home. [4]
It has taken five hundred years to simplify some of Chaucer's rotten spelling--if I may be allowed to use to frank a term as that--and it will take five hundred years more to get our exasperating new Simplified Corruptions accepted and running smoothly. [5]
They never got farther west than Rotten Row, which was in possession of three classes of people--those who sat in Parliament, those who had seats on the Stock Exchange, and those who could not sit their horses. [11]
You say that everything here is rotten and that an overthrow is coming: I don't see it. [2]
I smelt sickly eggs by the barrel, and rotten cabbages, and such things; and if I know the signs of a dead cat being around, and I bet I do, there was sixty-four of them went in. [5]
But the merchant differed: there were things, he said, too precious to be given up for lost, even when the hope of finding them seemed as feeble and thin as a rotten reed. [10]
There was enough crazy and rotten rubbish in the building to make a true brick-a-bracker green with envy. [5]
Pardy, the woman's case is rotten at the source. [5]
If our loom be framed with rotten hurdles, when our web is well-ny done, our work is yet to begin. [11]
It is quite another matter when those rotten timbers are used in holding up the roofs over our own heads. [6]
His zeal resembled a rude gesture toward the door, as much as one rotten egg looks like another, for, under certain circumstances, the affectionate brother prefers to have his beloved sister as far away as possible. [10]
He went to a rotten log near at hand and began to dig under one end of it with his Barlow knife. [5]
Like that for a mile or so; then ma'm'selle remember there is a great crack in the ice a mile farther on, and beyond the ice is weak and rotten, for there the curren' is ver' strongest. [11]
I seldom say a harsh word to any one, but I was not master of myself then, and I spoke right out and called him an anisodactylous plesiosaurian conchyliaceous Ornithorhyncus, and rotten to the heart with holoaophotal subterranean extemporaneousness. [5]
Suppose you find a brass pot with a hundred dollars in it, all rusty and gray, or rotten chest full of di'monds. [5]

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