ROTTEN in a Sentence

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Well, what of that? Suppose you find a brass pot with a hundred dollars in it, all rusty and gray, or rotten chest full of di'monds.

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 Meanings and Examples of ROTTEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rotten
 a.  damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  Those she found on the ground were mostly rotten.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  The uprights which held the thick vines were rotten and that night Scarlett hacked at them with the kitchen knife until they fell and the tangled mass ran wild over the grave.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  She's a spunky girl," said Tony, "and it's rotten luck for her, Joe getting killed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  She had been crawling with fear, rotten with fear, terrified by the Yankees, terrified by the approaching birth of Beau.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  And you, Madam, will kindly refrain from undoing my work behind my back and foreclosing mortgages on any of the people I'm courting or selling them rotten lumber or in other ways insulting them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
6  It was a red-brick Ohio town, and the trees made it damp, and it smelled of rotten apples.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  As Sissy said it, her eyes were attracted by another of those rotten fragments of fence upon the ground.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
8  Therefore let's live the mental life, and glory in our spite, and strip the rotten old show.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
9  They're the mingiest set of ladylike snipe ever invented: full of conceit of themselves, frightened even if their boot-laces aren't correct, rotten as high game, and always in the right.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
10  Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
11  Then it was my turn, and I went through him as if he had been a rotten pumpkin.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
12  They wandered here and there with their absurd long staves in their hands, like a lot of faithless pilgrims bewitched inside a rotten fence.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
13  It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
14  And, after all, they did not eat each other before my face: they had brought along a provision of hippo-meat which went rotten, and made the mystery of the wilderness stink in my nostrils.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
15  Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo-meat, which couldn't have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn't, in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo, thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
2  There is small choice in rotten apples.
3  Some of the wood was completely rotten.
4  The fish is rotten; you must not eat it.
5  The wood was so rotten you could put your finger through it.
6  The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
7  The rotten apple injuries its neighbours.
8  Police corruption is not just a few rotten apples.
9  The US Embassy in Manila found itself under a hail of rotten fruit early today, the latest symptom of anti-American feeling reverberating across Asia in recent days.
10  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.
11  Well, what of that? Suppose you find a brass pot with a hundred dollars in it, all rusty and gray, or rotten chest full of di'monds.