How to Use necrotic in a Sentence

necrotic

adjective

• Check for thrips, scale, mealy bugs, necrotic leaves and the like.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2021
• The bacteria can attack the face, leaving cratered necrotic holes where a nose, a set of eyes, or a mouth ought to be.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2015
• The impatiens necrotic spot virus and the disease Pythium wilt have both been around for years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• These bites turn necrotic, meaning blood flow gets shut down around the bite and cells that are deprived of oxygen start to die.
  — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2023
• If real time in year 20 is notched on Kirsten’s necrotic arm, the episode’s internal timeline is pegged to the day of Kirsten’s play.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
• The wounds can become necrotic and in some cases lead to soft tissue injury.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 June 2023
• Brown severed a 62-year-old patient's necrotic foot on May 27.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
• But readers among the living may be reluctant to take on such a necrotic tale.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
• Leaf spot is a fungal disease that is characterized by necrotic spots on the leaves of a plant.
  — oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2022
• The venom from the recluse is a potent cytotoxin that can cause necrotic lesions that could take months to heal.
  — al, 28 June 2022
• Volutella is a fungus that can cause necrotic blotches on leaves and stems; the blotches range in color from brown to black.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2020
• It is commonly thought that hobo and brown recluse spiders cause necrotic bites in this state, when in fact the brown recluse is not found in Oregon and the hobo spider does not cause necrotic bites.
  — oregonlive, 18 July 2023
• What should have been a beautiful network of healthy tissues had turned purulent, necrotic and slimy.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• In fact, when Betty died, some of the cells in her left lung were already necrotic, indicating that her lungs had been infected a few days prior to her death.
  — Niran Al-Agba, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2022
• His feet became necrotic, meaning his tissue had died, according to the complaint.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2022
• And the necrotic tissue doesn't necessarily develop at the site where the drug was injected.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2022
• While necrotic wounds were a regular occurrence, predation was not; since 2012, the researchers have lost just one Javan slow loris to a predator, which was a feral dog.
  — Rachel Nuwer, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2020
• The stomach showed the same black areas, and there were necrotic areas near the opening, most likely caused by swallowing a diluted solution of mustard mixed with oil.
  — Jennet Conant, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• Once & Future observed that there is something rather…necrotic about our era of endless revamps and reboots of old material.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• If left untreated, the wounds can become necrotic and require amputation, according to the DEA.
  — Ashley Schwartz-Lavares, ABC News, 28 July 2023
• Taking the report of pain as a sign that the tissue was still viable, a well-meaning surgeon might spare it and amputate farther down the limb, leaving a necrotic zone behind that would soon result in sepsis and death.
  — Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
• Caravaggio pins the scene down to its material facts: the confused faces of the onlookers, the downcast faces of the sisters, the necrotic body of Lazarus, the supernatural authority of Christ.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
• Xylazine can cause severe, necrotic skin ulcerations in humans and the rotting may lead to amputation, according to the DEA.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2023
• During the procedure, veterinarians found necrotic tissue that needed to be removed which has left Lorelai with her interesting-looking ears.
  — The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2021
• Many toddlers have unwittingly discovered the phenomenon by allowing popsicles to rest too long against their cheeks, leaving them with inflamed, necrotic fat tissue.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2021
• Additionally, people who inject drug mixtures containing xylazine may develop severe necrotic skin wounds that may lead to tissue death and amputation.
  — Janelle Chavez, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
• They’re also vaccinated against Newcastle disease, a respiratory illness; infectious bronchitis; and acute necrotic proventriculitis, a viral disease that affects the immune system.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
• Convulsive ergotism causes fits, hallucinations, mania, or delirium, while gangrenous ergotism leads to necrotic tissue.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024